Vodafone Greece "Mobile Broadband on Demand"
Vodafone sells USB keys with a 10 days "unlimited" 3G access (fair use 10 GB).You'll have only GPRS in remote locations (like small islands).
Linux is unsupported, officially.
On my Gentoo, the key was recognized by the system and I did not even have to configure usb_modeswitch. Just in case, this cannot hurt:
DefaultVendor= 0x19d2
DefaultProduct= 0x2000
TargetVendor= 0x19d2
TargetProduct= 0x0063
MessageEndpoint=0x01
MessageContent="5553424308E0CC852400000080000C85000000240000000000000000000000"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch"
All you need is the PAN. I googled for it and found "internet" or "internet.vodafone.gr". None of them work.
The right PAN is web.session in fact. No username/password.
The key behavior is erratic, even under Windows. Once, I had to unplug it half a dozen times before it worked. I do not know which is responsible, of the phone network or the hardware.
Linux is unsupported, officially.
On my Gentoo, the key was recognized by the system and I did not even have to configure usb_modeswitch. Just in case, this cannot hurt:
- in /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf
DefaultVendor= 0x19d2
DefaultProduct= 0x2000
TargetVendor= 0x19d2
TargetProduct= 0x0063
MessageEndpoint=0x01
MessageContent="5553424308E0CC852400000080000C85000000240000000000000000000000"
- in /etc/udev/rules.d/91-usb_modeswitch.rules
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch"
All you need is the PAN. I googled for it and found "internet" or "internet.vodafone.gr". None of them work.
The right PAN is web.session in fact. No username/password.
The key behavior is erratic, even under Windows. Once, I had to unplug it half a dozen times before it worked. I do not know which is responsible, of the phone network or the hardware.
posted by M.A. at 16:15
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