Many customers have asked about this set of steps, and it’s finally possible to use Broadband cards from all three major vendors on SLED 10 SP1 due to some awesome driver work and the efforts of Greg KH and others.

Setting Up the Cards

  1. Here are the steps needed to setup most broadband cards that are available in the Unites States from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint:
  2. Open a terminal session and login as root
    Insert the broadband card in your laptop
    Wait a few seconds and type dmesg in the terminal session.

Verifying the Card is Detected

  1. The messages below are from a Cingular Option GT Max card – yours should show something different. What we are looking for is if the card gets detected as a USB device or something different and does it load a drivers. Mines loads the Nozomi driver and maps to /dev/noz0. Most other cards map to /dev/ttyUSB0. Check in /dev directory to see if the device gets created.pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0

Note: The output should show similar to the below.

pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
nozomi: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
Initializing Nozomi driver 2.1 (build date: Aug 31 2007 16:04:24)
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Init, cards_found: 1
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Card type is: 2048
PCI: Enabling device 0000:16:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:16:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Nozomi driver nozomi_tty
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Version of card: 3
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Initialization OK!

Configuring the Network Settings

  1. Start YaST –> Network Devices –> Modem
  2. Click “OK” at the warning message
  3. Click on “Add”
  4. Set the “Modem Device” to /dev/noz0 for the Global GT Max card or /dev/ttyUSB0 (default) for USB based AT&T/Cingular, Verizon and Sprint cards
  5. Un-check the “Special Settings” for “Speaker On” and “Detect Dial Tone”
  6. Click on “Details”
    • For AT&T, change the “Init 2″ script to AT+CGDCONT=1,”ip”,”wap.cingular”
    • For Verizon and Sprint, leave to default settings
  7. Click “OK” –> “Next”
  8. Click on the “Custom Providers” radio button –> “New”
    • For AT&T:
      • “Provider Name” AT&T or Verizon or Sprint
      • “Phone Number” *99#
      • “User Name” ispda@cingulargprs.com
      • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
      • “Password” CINGULAR1
      • Change the “Baud Rate” to 115200
    • For Verizon
      • “Provider Name” Verizon
      • “Phone Number” #777
      • “User Name” to phone#@vzw3g.com (phone# is the actual phone number of the broadband card. If it is not available, 2125551212 works :-)
      • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
      • “Password” vzw
    • For Sprint:
      • “Provider Name” Sprint
      • “Phone Number” #777
      • “User Name” web
      • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
      • “Password” web
  9. Click “Next”
    • Make the DNS changes only for AT&T, leave the default settings for Verizon and Sprint
  10. Un-check “Automatically Retrieve DNS”
  11. Set “First” Name Server to 66.209.10.201
  12. Set “Second” Name Server to 66.102.163.231
  13. Click “Next” –> “Finish”
    Click “No” when asked to “Configure mail”

Using the Cards

  1. Click on the Network Manager applet in the panel
  2. Select “Dial Up Connections” –> “Connect to AT&T via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Verizon via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Sprint via modem (modem0)…”
  3. To disconnect:
    Click on the Network Manager applet in the panel
    Select “Dial Up Connections” –> “Disconnect from AT&T via modem (modem0)…” or “Disconnect from Verizon via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Sprint via modem (modem0)…”

Update for AT&T Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 on SLED 10 SP2:

/dev/ttyUSB0
—————————–
Baud Rate: 115200
init 2: at+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”isp.cingular”
—————————–
username: ISP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
—————————–
uncheck “Automatically retrieve DNS” populate with ip addresses from above
Check “Stupid Mode” This is very important

Last 3 posts by ACube