{"id":194,"date":"2008-10-23T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-10-23T22:27:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:57:22","slug":"internet-via-bsnl-wll-phone-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Internet via BSNL WLL phone on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my students brought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsnl.co.in\/service\/wll.htm\" target=\"_blank\">BSNL WLL<\/a> phone saying that it is not getting recognized on Ubuntu 8.04. The model of the phone was HTL Clarity ( I suspect it to be some Chinese phone). I plugged it into my ubuntu system and fonund out the usb id via the lsusb command. The id was 0x15eb:0x0001. This is what I did to get it working on Ubuntu 8.04.<\/p>\n<p>a) Load the usb serial driver wiith the usb id parameters.<\/p>\n<p># \/sbin\/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x15eb product=0x0001<\/p>\n<p>b) Load the ppp drive<\/p>\n<p># \/sbin\/modprobe ppp_generic<\/p>\n<p>c) Check the dmesg output<\/p>\n<p>#dmesg |tail<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0 227.271459] \/build\/buildd\/linux-2.6.24\/drivers\/usb\/serial\/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271485] usbserial_generic 2-1:1.0: generic converter detected<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271616] usb 2-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271627] usbserial_generic 2-1:1.1: generic converter detected<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271687] usb 2-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271697] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic<br \/>\n[\u00a0 227.271700] \/build\/buildd\/linux-2.6.24\/drivers\/usb\/serial\/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core<br \/>\n[\u00a0 276.412779] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2<\/p>\n<p>d) run wvdialconf<\/p>\n<p>#wvdialconf<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0 will create a skeleton of \/etc\/wvdial.conf.<\/p>\n<p>e) Edit the \/etc\/wvidal.conf so that it looks like the following<br \/>\n[Dialer Defaults]<br \/>\nInit1 = ATZ<br \/>\nInit2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &amp;C1 &amp;D2 +FCLASS=0<br \/>\nInit3 = at+crm=1;+cmux=1;+cps=33;+cta=0<br \/>\nModem Type = Analog Modem<br \/>\nISDN = 0<br \/>\nPhone = #777<br \/>\nModem = \/dev\/ttyUSB0<br \/>\nUsername = #######<br \/>\nPassword =\u00a0 ####<br \/>\nBaud = 460800<br \/>\nStupid Mode = 1<br \/>\nAuto DNS<br \/>\nCheck Def Route<\/p>\n<p>I have put # in the place of username and password inthe listing above. Generally, the username will be the phone number. If your phone no is 0471223344 putusername as 471223344 and the password as 3344\u00a0 ( the last four digits of phone number).<\/p>\n<p>f) Run wvdial\u00a0 to connect\u00a0 to Internet. Use Ctrl+C to colse the connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my students brought a BSNL WLL phone saying that it is not getting recognized on Ubuntu 8.04. The model of the phone was HTL Clarity ( I suspect it to be some Chinese phone). I plugged it into my ubuntu system and fonund out the usb id via the lsusb command. The id&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet via BSNL WLL phone on Ubuntu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-gnulinux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}