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

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.