Wow, that’s a mouthful. It was a hassle to get this working, but I finally managed to get everything working. The Japanese blogs were totally useless for this, for reasons I can’t figure out. I followed their guides – I guess they weren’t using the latest version of Ubuntu (or that I’m a moron, take your pick)
- Make sure your modem is plugged in when you boot up the computer or it may not be recognized.
- The device should be in /dev/ttyUSB0. You can look for this by running “dmesg” in the terminal; you should see something like this: “option 2-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected”
- Open the terminal.
- You might have to install pppconfig; sudo aptitude -y install pppconfig (It doesn’t come pre-installed in my version of Ubuntu 8.10 sadly)
- Type in “sudo pppconfig”
- Follow Tomoko’s directions here to configure pppconfig: http://alohatomokojp.blogspot.com/2008/10/e-mobile-on-ubuntu.html (I’m not sure if the speed that you enter has any effect; it seems to work fine for me.
- If you are having a problem with the modem not connecting, you should use these two commands; I think they disconnect & reconnect the usb hub, but I’m not sure.
sudo modprobe -r uhci_hcd sudo modprobe uhci_hcd
- I don’t much like her way of activating the modem. There is a more elegant solution here: http://viva-ubuntu.net/?p=955. It’s in Japanese, but just go into the system main menu folder, and create an icon for the menu to connect without opening terminal.
It’s funny, while writing this out, I note that this article basically has everything that I did:
http://www.quiva.net/index.php?/archives/63-Emobile-on-Ubuntu-Linux.html
I remember reading it before too. I guess I hadn’t installed pppconfig before running their instructions 