I've spent the past 2 days and 1½ hour from the third day trying to figure out how to configure my USB modem to start surfing on the net. And now I give up. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing so I need some help. I'm getting an error when trying to connect with wvdial. Here is the error from the terminal:
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99# ~[7f]}#@!}!}!} }9}#}%B#}%}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } } }%}&URy,kT~
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
~[7f]}#@!}!}"} }9}#}%B#}%}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } } }%}&URy,'9~
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Aug 17 19:20:17 2012
--> Pid of pppd: 10401
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> pppd: ��B
--> Disconnecting at Fri Aug 17 19:20:18 2012
--> The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16) --> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
--> Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information.
--> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 40 seconds
And my wvdial.conf
looks like this:
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
Modem Type = USB Modem
Phone = *99#
ISDN = 0
Username = *
Password = *
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Baud = 460800
Pin = 7702
This is the lsusb
output:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bdb:1902 Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV F3507g v2 Mobile Broadband Module
I've changed the wvdial.config several times with no success and if I change Init1 to:
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = AT + CGDCONT=1, "IP", "bredband.tre.se"
I get an error saying ATZ Error Bad init string
. The USB dongle is a Huawei E372 Mobile Broadband modem. It has a SIM card in it and it requires a PIN number of 4 digits to be able to connect to the internet. I tested it on Ubuntu 12.04 and it works fine but I'm having a really hard time trying to set it up on Backtrack 5 R3.
Image of the modem I'm using: