Hi Martin,

pages for the 3G Femto Cell (first European carrier! :-) ...) can be found here.

You can get more information about .

The open source code can be found here.

We don't have any diagnostic software as such, other than setting it into debug mode.

Useful Commands
----------------

To force your computer to reload device rules (e.g. tell it that your usb device is a modem and not a storage device) you can use UDEV commands:

>udevcontrol reload_rules

To show attributes of a device connected on the system you can use the udevinfo command:

>udevinfo info --attribute-walk --name=/dev/bus/usb/$bus/$device

hence if a device on lssub is shown as:
>nherriot@kieran:~/workspace$ lsusb
>Bus 002 Device 041: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem

Hence the command would be:

udevinfo info --attribute-walk --name=/dev/bus/usb/002/041


Linux has a Hardware Abstraction Layer called HAL. This shows what device is connected as a modem. So you can use:

>hal-find-by-capability --capability=modem
...Output
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_12d1_1001_noserial_if0_serial_usb_0


You can find out what devices are connecte as serial devices.

>hal-find-by-capability --capability=serial
...Output
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_12d1_1001_noserial_if2_serial_usb_2
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_12d1_1001_noserial_if1_serial_usb_1
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_12d1_1001_noserial_if0_serial_usb_0
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0501_0_serial_platform_1
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0501_serial_platform_0


Hope this helps.


Kind regards, Nicholas Herriot

Hi Keith,

you want to syncn the package manager again with the Betavine repository. You should see that there is a new upgrade available.

Version has gone from 2.00.0-3 to 2.10.0-1

This should get round the python version issues for your version of Ubuntu.

Kind regards, Nicholas.

I've just got myself an acer aspire one with Linux Linpus Lite and am having difficulty connecting to 3 broadband.
I have ZTE MF627 dongle and i have tried using the solution for the Huwai dongle but when i try to run the program in network manager i get the following error message -
Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux needs the following files and dirs with some specific permissions in order to work properly: /opt/vmc/etc/ppp/peers should be readable and writtable by group vmc user user should be a member of group vmc

I'm completey clueless with Linux as I only started using it a week ago. Any help will be much appreciated
regards
pete

Yes please post the link to the 3G femto cell.

Do you have a set of diagnostic software for the VMC dongle? Both Windows and Linux if possible...

When I first got my machine (it is an ASUS EEE PC 4G) the wireless only worked intermittently and I spent hours looking at forums until I saw a post that said you need to get the updates for the wireless hardware before it will work. Do I need to do something similar for the USB port?

Thanks for your help,

Martin

Hi Nicholas,

I have entered the following command (without the dongle attached) and obtained the following response. Hope this helps.

Command:-
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-debug

Response:-
_______________________________________________________
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/upgrade-vmc-plugins", line 23, in <module>
from vmc.common import plugin
ImportError: No module named vmc.common
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/usage.py", line 373, in <lambda>
fn = lambda name, value, m=method: m(value)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 566, in opt_reactor
installReactor(shortName)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/reactors.py", line 79, in installReactor
for installer in getReactorTypes():
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugin.py", line 200, in getPlugins
allDropins = getCache(package)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugin.py", line 179, in getCache
dropinPath.setContent(pickle.dumps(dropinDotCache))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py", line 623, in setContent
f = sib.open('w')
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py", line 433, in open
return open(self.path, mode+'b')
exceptions.IOError: Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugins/dropin.cache.new'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 694, in run
runApp(config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp
_SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 411, in run
self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 494, in createOrGetApplication
application = getApplication(self.config, passphrase)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 505, in getApplication
application = service.loadApplication(filename, style, passphrase)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/application/service.py", line 390, in loadApplication
application = sob.loadValueFromFile(filename, 'application', passphrase)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py", line 215, in loadValueFromFile
exec fileObj in d, d
File "/usr/share/vodafone-mobile-connect/gtk-tap.py", line 34, in <module>
from vmc.common.startup import create_skeleton_and_do_initial_setup
exceptions.ImportError: No module named vmc.common.startup

Failed to load application: No module named vmc.common.startup
________________________________________________________

Many thanks once again... I hope this helps.

From being an amateur VB6 programmer I'm starting to learn Python so that I can play in linux but still on the bottom rung of the ladder as yet so it doesn't mean much to me at this stage :-(

Kind regards,

Keith

Hi Keith,

there is some other problem of why the app is not launching. Can you open a terminal window and start the app in debug mode, then post the output onto a forum post:

Hello together,
once more thanks for a real good application and your
honorable work. I've been using VMC with Kubuntu 8.xx
and 9.xx since last year's summer without any great
problems.

As a little thank-you I would like to help with translations to german of system messages, documentation etc. around Vodafone Mobile Connect.

I'd seen some minor mistranslations and want to improve that at least.

How can I do this?
Where can I read some docs around that?

Rexxy

Excellent stuff Matt, so glad you're sorted. Thanks for detailing the procedure, I'm sure it will help others too!

Best regards,


Andrew