The modem is a ZTE MF110 HSUPA, recognized as a MF636 by your script. It came along with my subscription to Cosmote. Let me know if you need more info.

As for the timer, thanks for the update. Because I saw that it worked with the command line but not with through the GUI (which of course occurred for the reason you mentioned above), I didn’t take the time to fiddle with the GUI.

Once again excellent work!

Cheers,
George

I am glad you finally found your way out into working with your mobile broadband connection and grateful for you providing your feedback/comments. In response to them:

1. Whenever PIN is sent to device, script is waiting for 3 seconds, before checking back if it had been successful or not. Reason behind those three seconds is that each device & SIM-version combination needs different time for SIM card to get unlocked. Seems like your own combination of modem & SIM card needs more than 3 seconds, leading into 1st attempt always failing. A second attempt should always find SIM-card PIN-unlocked and would succeed. Do you mind sparing me your modem type and operator issuing your SIM card?
2. There is a timer and bandwidth accounting per session on 0.2.0 series. This is reachable through menu by selecting «Connection information» option, or from command line by using «info» argument: /usr/bin/sakis3g info

2 mini comments:

1) I downloaded your legacy version, supplied here, as well the latest one from http://www.sakis3g.org . The funny thing is that in both occasions, when I input the pin, it complained it was wrong, which is kind of odd, since I have the card that the SIM case with right in front of me! Even stranger than that, though it said the PIN is wrong, the connection was successfully established with the legacy version (the input PIN is correct)..

The PIN is 4 digits long, so it’s not one of those special occasions you mention.

With the latest version it said that it can not continue so as not to block the SIM… However, when I gave the PIN as a command line argument, i.e. «SIM_PIN=1234″, it worked without a problem!

2) It might be useful to introduce a timer of some sort, so that one may see how long they have been online.

Once again, great work! Keep it up!

Regards,
George

I guess bellow are the needed information to make it work:
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = AT+CGDCONT=1,»IP»,»airtelgprs.com»,»",0,0
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
stupid mode = 1
Modem Type = USB Modem
Baud = 460800
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB1
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Password =
Username =

there is no user or password needed when I plug it in Windows. But it needs to be connected.
I managed to see it listed when sakis3g window opens but when I click on connect nothing happens.
I also have to say that I know almost nothing about how to work on ununtu but I am trying to learn.
Thank you for putting up this site. Hope you could help as I got very tired on trying to fix it by myself.

/From Sweden a thousand thank you´s

Information you provided, will be available in the upcoming 0.2.0 version of script.

The local UK info for T-Mobile was:-

ISP_23430_name=»T-Mobile UK»
ISP_23430_product=»T-Mobile mobile internet»
ISP_23430_apn=»internet::user:pass»
ISP_23430_phone=»*99#»
ISP_23430_menufgcolor=white
ISP_23430_menubgcolor=pink
ISP_23430_icon=»http://www.t-mobile.at/Tico.ico»

I’ve got an O2 stick somewhere. If I can get that working I’ll post the UK details for that too.