If you have a Vodafone Internet Key and you don’t want to get crazy configuring it, use this really fine package: Vodafone Mobile Connect from Betavine Forge, a Vodafone Group R&D Lab.
It has nice features like:
- statistics about transferred bytes (rx/tx)
- sending SMS
- choosing your preferred network settings (gprs, umts, preferred)
- nice Python GUI
- automatic detection of your Internet Key
- (not so nice) it is not integrated with Network Manager
It will works fine also with recent Internet Keys which need usb_modeswitch.
I’ve tested with a 28.8 Mbps USB Internet Key Model Number K4505 under Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.
((enjoy))
hi,
it’s my same configuration, BUT, on my laptop, it doesn’t work!
it say me that the device is unrecognized, so display a screen that ask for:
periferic type (only ‘serial’ is allowed)
periferic data port (an empy field)
periferic control port (another empty field)
connection speed (115200)
so, since I’ a dummy, I’m not able to fill the fields…. cah you help me?
thanks in advance
bye
marco
Have you tried to run as root?
Something like:
$ sudo vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux
Update for latest Linux Kernel: it seems that latest Linux Kernel (for example Ubuntu 10.04 with 2.6.38) handle out of the box these kind of Internet Key, so you also get Network Manager integration. Cool!