I took some notes from these sites when setting up a EVDO usb720 for someone this weekend. I don't know if you need to activate the device in Windows as suggested as that had already been used in Windows when I was asked to get it going in Linux.
http://kenkinder.com/evdo-pc5740/
http://www.lighty2go.com/linux/29/li...n-evdo-usb720/
I found most of it was not needed for Fedora 8 and Mandriva 2008, which have recent version of kernel, I only needed to make two files and run a simple command to use those files.
Run this command to create a file called /etc/ppp/peers/verizon:
Code:
echo "
ttyUSB0
230400
noauth
defaultroute
usepeerdns
local
debug
lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 65535
connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -t3 -f /etc/ppp/peers/verizon_chat'
" > /etc/ppp/peers/verizon
Run this command to create a file called /etc/ppp/peers/verizon_chat:
Code:
echo "
ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT ERROR ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'ATDT#777'
TIMEOUT 70
'CONNECT' ''
" > /etc/ppp/peers/verizon_chat
Run this command to make the connection. I used the tail command at first just to see how things were coming along.
Code:
pppd call verizon
tail -f /var/log/messages
You can have it start at boot up by putting
pppd call verizon in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
That's it!
In Mandriva, I had to [X] check the ppp0 connection in shorewall