Bigpond 4G USB driver

[derekf]

Those desktop icons, connect & disconnect don`t work all the time. And with the connection icon in the bottom right of the panel never connects to the net.

I went into settings and configured my settings, but seems not want to connect. In the control center - remove a connection, i can see eth0: nVidia Corporation|MCP61 Ethernet.

I select remove it, but it keeps coming back. Would that be the trouble why i can`t connect all the time ?

And in Putty my modem speed is 460800, does anyone know the maximum speed i can use.

 Derek.

[wedgetail]

derekf

1.. The modem speed in Putty, is not used because the connection is made to the USB port, only when you use Putty to connect in old fashion using a DB9 connector, so called Serial port.  You can forget the speed.

Further to the speed this is of no importance as the connection is only a control connection to send the few charaters in the AT string, this speed has nothing to do with your InterNet connected speed. Putty is only use like the ignition key in a car, to start the car, shutdown the engine, lock doors etc but has no influence on what the car does in the mean time. A value of 38400 would be safe but if it connects with the higher value you have don't worry about the speed figure at all.

2.. I don't think it is the eth0 causing you any problem with the connect files.  The eth0 is only for local area network, your cable connection to a modem, which you don't have.  The Sierra 320U connects via USB to computer and Wireless method to Bigpond radio towers in you neighbourhood.

3.. The problem you have I think could be another, from root konsole post:

ifconfig

Looks like we need to look at using dhclient -r and dhcclient -nw usb0 I don't have time at the moment.  You could join up with Whirlpool and discuss the problem with the tough guys there.  

[derekf]

[root@8 ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr BC:AE:C5:93:0E:BC
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:45 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3800 (3.7 KiB)  TX bytes:3800 (3.7 KiB)

wwan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 7E:FE:42:4F:01:07
          inet addr:124.176.74.87  Bcast:124.176.74.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::7cfe:42ff:fe4f:107/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:61418 (59.9 KiB)  TX bytes:21841 (21.3 KiB)

[wedgetail]

derekf
Below in red tells me you are on the internet

wwan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 7E:FE:42:4F:01:07
          inet addr:124.176.74.87  Bcast:124.176.74.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::7cfe:42ff:fe4f:107/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:61418 (59.9 KiB)  TX bytes:21841 (21.3 KiB)

If you look in this section there is no Internet Address or IP number. Not being used. It is waiting to be connected but since no cable plugged in nothing happens.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr BC:AE:C5:93:0E:BC
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:45 Base address:0xa000]

Open the file connect320.sh and add these two lines:

dhclient -r
dhclient -nw wwan0

You do that using Dolphin > Desktop > Right click on connect320.sh > Open with Kwrite

So the content of the file looks like below
#!/bin/sh
dhclient -r
dhclient -nw wwan0
echo -e "AT\041SCACT=1,2\r" > /dev/ttyUSB2
kwrite

Save the file

Now post from konsole:

Code: [Select]

cat /home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh
Check if you can connect using the file. 

[derekf]

[root@8 ~]# cat /home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh
#!/bin/sh
dhclient -r
dhclient -nw wwan0
echo -e "AT\041SCACT=1,2\r" > /dev/ttyUSB2
kwrite

Once i edited the connect file and saved it, i rebooted and clicked on the connect icon and it worked. So hopefully that has fixed it.

 And my web pages load alot quicker now, they were taking ages to load.

Derek.

[wedgetail]

derekf
Glad to hear it got going, but let us see if it is ongoing. 

Since I have no personal experience I am guessing on your Internet Speed.  You connect to the nearest suitable tower via radio waves and so do a lot of other people.  The number of people at any one time trying to use the Internet can have a significant effect on the speed as you will be sharing the channel from the tower to copper/optical fibre cables. 

On top of that you have the varying signal strength of the radio waves it is also possible that has an effect on speed. If you know what tower and the distance to it you can make some assumptions as to what the signal strength may be doing.

So don't be surprised if you get widely varying perceived internet performance.

See if you can find a speed test site. Then you can for the fun check you speed at any given time. Normally when my speed drops significantly I try to run a ADSL speed test when that falls under a certain value I pull out our extension telephone and the speed goes up again.   

[derekf]

Hopefully on friday i will be buying a external antenna for my 4G mobile broadband. it looks a bit like a normal t.v. antenna.

 Once that is setup and facing 1 of 2 towers near me, i might get a better signal.

[wedgetail]

derekf
Do you have any signal indicator at all on the unit?
The net-applet in the tray you said did not activate.

[derekf]

I downloaded KNemo to keep an eye on downloads & speed. The speed is all different as it is mobile broadband. If that is what you mean.

[derekf]

My sierra 320U 4G connection is working good, but is there a way i can start my internet connection on boot when my computer starts.

I have looked in Control Center - Network Center -  Network Settings and Start the connection at boot is ticked, but does not connect 90% of the time.

Can i make a script for my connection, and how and what do i type ?

 Derek.

[wedgetail]

derekf
A couple of replies above, we talked about the  connect script::

/home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh

I am not familiar with how one gets a custom program to start up when booting, I do seem to remember there is a way or place to save a file to auto start.  My thinking is that the script file by which you do manual connecting could probably just be auto-started.

I have to ask other members to chirp in here on how to do this  .

[derekf]

In my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts my ifcfg-wwan0 looks like this:

DEVICE=wwan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=192.168.1.99
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.99
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
RESOLV_MODS=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
ACCOUNTING=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=yes
PEERNTPD=no

Can you see anything wrong with that, or can i add my /home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh file to it ?

[muungwana]

derekf
A couple of replies above, we talked about the  connect script::

/home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh

I am not familiar with how one gets a custom program to start up when booting, I do seem to remember there is a way or place to save a file to auto start.  My thinking is that the script file by which you do manual connecting could probably just be auto-started.

I have to ask other members to chirp in here on how to do this  .

if a program that is to auto start at boot time requires to be started with root's privileges,then it must be added in "/etc/rc.local" script file.All commands in the script file are run just before the GUI starts.Programs that are started this way are program that are meant to be system wide used programs.

If you want to auto start a program after a particular user has logged in and the program does not require root's privileges to start,then do the following to autostart it:

start kde systemsettings->system administration->startup and shutdown->autostart->add program or add script

[Old-Polack]

In my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts my ifcfg-wwan0 looks like this:

DEVICE=wwan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=192.168.1.99
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.99
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
RESOLV_MODS=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
ACCOUNTING=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=yes
PEERNTPD=no

Can you see anything wrong with that, or can i add my /home/derek/Desktop/connect320.sh file to it ?

I don't have any wireless routers myself, but on wired networks the gateway address cannot be the same as the host machine's address as you have it above.

Exanple:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.99
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=5
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=no
MTU=1492
DNS1=4.2.2.5
DNS2=4.2.2.6
RESOLV_MODS=no
LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=6
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
ACCOUNTING=yes


My machine's IP address is the same as yours above, 192.168.1.99, while the gateway routers's address is 192.168.1.1. Other machines on the network have IP addresses ranging from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150, as assigned by DHCP.

[derekf]

Old-Polack,

 I changed my GATEWAY=192.168.1.99 to GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

And in start kde system settings -system administration- startup and shutdown- autostart, can i  add my script from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts my ifcfg-wwan0 or is that wrong ?

 Derek.