[OLPC-SF] [Fwd: XO laptop and Sprint Novatel Ovation U720 broadband USB modem]

[Tane' Tachyon]

Tane' Tachyon wrote:

> I thought I'd try asking about this here as well.

OK, solved -- when I tried this advice from the bottom of the wiki
article mentioned

    In case you were initially connected to other network, you might
    need to add the DNS address manually to  /etc/resolv.conf file as
    nameserver <DNS address> to connect to internet.

now I'm able to access web pages despite having gotten some error
messages from those commands  -- it's really cool to see this
working!

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> 
> Subject:
> XO laptop and Sprint Novatel Ovation U720 broadband USB modem
> From:
> Tane' Tachyon <tachyon at tachyonlabs.com>
> Date:
> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:37:13 -0800
> To:
> ankur at laptop.org
> 
> To:
> ankur at laptop.org
> 
> 
> Hi! Last night I was reading your page
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Modem#XO_Internet_Connectivity_using_Sprint_Novatel_Wireless_Ovation_U727_USB_Modem
> and getting very excited that I might be able to use my XO and
> broadband card (which I usually use with Windows laptops) together on
> an upcoming train trip.
> 
> When I followed the steps on the above page, some of the results were
> promising whereas others had problems, so I thought I would write to
> you about it and see if you had any ideas.
> 
> First of all, my XO is running Build 767, my broadband modem is not
> the Sprint Novatel Ovation U727 described on the above page but
> rather the U720, and when doing the steps from the wiki page I was
> doing them from the Ctrl-Alt-F1 shell rather than from the Terminal
> activity.
> 
> On Sprint's page
> http://www4.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/downloads/Sprint%20Mobile%20broadband%20Setup%20Guide%20for%20Linux%201.2.pdf
> I found that the USB product number for the U720 is 0x2110, so I
> substituted that for 0x4100 when following these steps from the wiki
> page:
> 
>       modprobe -r usbserial
>       modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4100
>       eject /dev/sr0
> 
> So with the commands above, the first two seem to work fine (the
> second giving me a bunch of messages about registering and detecting)
> but with the third I get the error message
> 
>       eject: unable to find or open device for `/dev/sr0'
> 
> Next I run
> 
>       sudo dmesg|grep -i ttyUSB
> as described in the next step on the wiki page, and as I then get the
> messages
> 
>       generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>       generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1
>       generic converter now attached to ttyUSB2
>       generic converter now attached to ttyUSB3
> 
> this also seems to be fine.
> 
> I had downloaded sprintconfig.txt from the wiki, and when I run the
> final command
> 
>       wvdial --config sprintconfig.txt
> 
> listed in the wiki page directions, while most of the messages look
> good in terms of detecting, registering, and connecting, and while
> the light on the modem does start flashing, on the other hand, the
> second message I get is
> 
>       Cannot get information for serial port
> 
> And then the real problem is that if I then switch to the Home screen
> with Ctrl-Alt-F3 and bring up either the Browse or the Opera
> activities, I can't actually access any web sites.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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