Option 515m 3g dongle - possible?

[WhiteElephant]

Hi all


I own an option 515m 3G dongle on orange UK and I was wondering if it was possible to get it working on the Pandora? I am running superzaxxon 1.5 beta 4 with kernal 3.2.


I plugged it in briefly this morning to the USB port on top of the Pandora but it didnt seem to recognise it and I dont really know what I am doing on linux properly yet, it has been a long time since I last used it. Does anyone out there who knows what they are doing have one they could test?


Thanks in advance for any help rendered

 

[Askarus]

Did you enable the USB host?


Pandora button>System>Toggle USB

 

[WhiteElephant]

Yes I did enable USB host. There was still no notification I could see that it had recognised the dongle. The dongle had power but that was it. Any other suggestions?

 

[mcobit]

What does sudo lsusb or dmesg say?

 

[Askarus]

@ mcobit:


Doesn't he have to follow this guide: http://www.pandora-power.net/pandora-umts.html


Sorry, it's German but I don't know an English counterpart. Perhaps there's some instruction in the Wiki.


You're much better than me and perhaps you can guide WhiteElephant through our German giude .

 

[WhiteElephant]

I will check what lsusb and dmesg(whats this?) say when I get home tonight.


@Askarus: google translate doesnt do a bad job at translating that link to English so I will see if I can get anywhere following it. Thanks for that

 

[Askarus]

I don't think you have to do that Modemmanager-stuff.


Modemmanager is on our Pandoras by default.

 

[WhiteElephant]

Hi, yeah I skipped the modemmanager bit, thanks for that. I got it working finally using a combination of the link above, plus:


http://www.gp32x.de...sb-stick-usage/


and


http://boards.openpa...95-3g-over-usb/


It detects it as a mass usb storage device to start with though so I have to run the following 2 commands each time I plug it in


1. sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0af0 product=0xd157


2. sudo usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/0af0:d157


and then right click the network manager icon and tick 'enable mobile broadband'


after that it seems to run as quickly and stably as using it on my laptop. I will probably try and make a script for the 2 commands above to make life easier.


Thanks for all your help


Edit: on a completely unrelated note, following this process highlighted the fact that my pandora has a sticky '7' key (i.e it goes down and doesnt spring back up properly). It seems to be getting better with use though so I will see how things go