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Neotel devices on Linux...
Hi All,After battling for a couple of days to get my Neotel device to work on Linux I finally managed to crack it.
At first I was using ndiswrapper and it just gave me loads of grey hairs and added to my balding.
Finally I decided there has to a way to get this working natively, after hours of googling and messing about I finally figured it out.
This is how you can easily setup your neotel device on your linux box. Plug your device in and then run lsusb
root@hydra: ~ # lsusb
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 064e:a111 Suyin Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 147e:2016
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04b3:3107 IBM Corp. ThinkPad 800dpi Optical Travel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05c6:3197 Qualcomm, Inc. CDMA Wireless Modem/Phone
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
then run modprobe with the details of the device as shown below
root@hydra: ~ # modprobe usbserial vendor=0x05c6 product=0x3197
Now run dmesg and you should see your device there, you can now use wvdial, gnome-ppp, kppp or whatever dialer you prefer.
root@hydra: ~ # dmesg
--- snip ---
[31291.281135] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[31291.498260] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[31291.503422] usbserial_generic 1-2:1.0: generic converter detected
[31291.503561] usb 1-2: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[31291.506831] usbserial_generic 1-2:1.1: generic converter detected
[31291.506946] usb 1-2: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Hope that helps :-)
