User:Slashme/NeotelModem

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Neotel provide reasonably-priced wireless internet in South Africa, and supply a wireless modem made by ZTE Corp. to allow one to use the service. The modem acts as a flashdisk when first plugged in, and contains Windows drivers. These drivers then put it into modem-mode.

To use it under Linux, one needs to do the following:

Ubuntu

I have not tested this, but there is a description at http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Neotel

Debian Lenny

I don't know whether some of the packages I had already installed on my system are needed - if this doesn't work, please drop a note on my talk page

Install usb-modeswitch

Follow the instructions in http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ - briefly:

• Download usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data files
• Uncompress them (tar xjf usb-modeswitch-1.2.0.tar.bz2 and tar xjf usb-modeswitch-data-20111023.tar.bz2 - depending on your version, the numbers will differ)
• Become root (su)
• Go into each of the uncompressed directories and run "make install"

At this point I rebooted, don't know whether it's necessary. Probably not.

Install and run pppconfig

• apt-get install pppconfig
• run "pppconfig" as root
• Give the following settings:
  • connection name: neotel (doesn't matter what you call it, but that's what I typed)
  • Phone Number: #777
  • User: xxxxxxxxxx@neotel.co.za - This will be a phone number followed by @neotel.co.za - in your info leaflet.
  • Password: xxxxxxxx Also in your info leaflet
  • Speed: 115200
  • Port: /dev/ttyUSB0 (might be different if you have other USB devices)
  • Authentication method: PAP

Connect

In a terminal, type "pon neotel"

If this just works, you're fine. If not, take a look at the contents of /var/log/messages for clues.