Telstra Modem Turbo 7 Series, ZTE MF636

wulfgarpro · #1 7th December 2009, 05:38 AM

Hi,

Im trying to get my wireless modem to connect. I need the gnome-ppp packet ? Is this available anywhere for download ?

wulfgarpro.

#2 7th December 2009, 06:06 AM

i found rpm's on rpmbone http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3 but none for F12 http://rpm.pbone.net/

this might help, i dunno http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-l.../msg59210.html

GNOME PPP

MissyB · #3 14th December 2009, 09:24 AM

Hi, I too have the MF636 (on orange with the correct apn/username/etc settings) but I have no idea how to get it to work.

I had a Huawei E220 (on vodafone) which worked perfectly on Fedora 11. However, since I upgraded to F12 this will not work and I don't know where to start with the MF636. In fact, upgrading to F12 (via preupgrade) seems to have been a big mistake all round, but that is not the issue here!

Somebody please help a (relative) newbie in distress!

Thanks in advance...

nacross · #4 9th July 2010, 04:32 PM

Probably a look on those post will help

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=242821

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1372227

MissyB · #5 12th November 2010, 10:44 AM

Hi nacross, thanks for the links. I am afraid that they do not work for me though. I gave up on Fedora 12, only ran F13 as a live usb and although I read that it worked with the stupid modem, it didn't for me. Cannot get it to work with F14 either - can't get most things to work with F14... awful OS, but that is another story.

Does anyone know if things work with Ubuntu? Been a long time hater of it, but thinking of jumping ship if it actually works? Well, less a case of jumping, more a case of being pushed with a great big sledgehammer!

nacross · #6 13th November 2010, 03:49 PM

On Fedora 13 and 14, you don't get to see de CD icon on the desktop. It is disabled automatically and you only need to wait for be available on network manager menu. I takes two o three minutes to show up on the Network manager connection list. I feel that is frustrating because you can't tell if it working or not for so long time.

I resent what you said about Fedora being awful. Just because of that I will tell you that: "You can run, but you can't hide" ... NetworkManager it is a packaged developed by Fedora used for many other distros, among others Ubuntu. As Ubuntu release is usually one month earlier than Fedora you may find that they show first the NetworkManager latest version, but is developed by Fedora. As I like to said to my friends, no matter which distro you use, you will end up using Fedora code anyway.

The performance in Ubuntu has varied, at the time that I had problems with Fedora 12... that problem about if your connection died you have to physically remove the modem and plugged back again... was exactly the same in Ubuntu. Even worst, at some point the connection were lost at the end of the ISP set up. So you have to unplugged and plugged again. A wait another three minutes. That was really puzzling almost anyone, thinking that everything was lost, and need to start all over again. I haven't tried the modem in Ubuntu recently.

The only thing that I know that can make big difference is using KDE instead of Gnome. As KNetworkManager has not been as smooth as NetworkManager (At least the last time that I tried in early Fedora 12 cycle). But as I pointed in other post, some issues are not really about NetworkManager, but about hardware detection.

I will suggest in any case, that you make sure you have the usb-modeswitch package in any distro that you try your modem.

Best regards.

MissyB · #7 14th November 2010, 11:14 AM

It does not work! I can translate that into other languages if that would make it easier to understand, but the point is that it does not work!

I can plug the modem in, leave it while I do other things, far longer than 2 or 3 minutes, it NEVER appears in the Network Manager list.

I have usb-modeswitch installed. I have had other modems working in the past with no problem. But Network Manager has NEVER WORKED FOR ME with this one.

I have spent hours trawling the internet looking for help, inspiration and fixes, but with no joy. I only post on forums when I cannot find the information myself.... I have to be desperate to post because of all the pompous people out there who post unhelpful replies.

Whilst you, nacross, might 'resent' me feeling that F14 is a dreadful OS, I resent your attitude and I am entitled to my opinion. I have had no end of problems with it, and this forum is not the place to list them. You might be a die hard Fedora fan, but I most certainly am not, not when so many things that used to work out of the box suddenly do not.

This modem does not work with F14, for me, on Gnome, with usb-modeswitch. I guess I will have to look elsewhere for help and suggestions because it is obvious from you that I will not find them here.

nacross · #8 14th November 2010, 08:36 PM

I want to help you, but I will need more info.

Can you plug the modem, wait two minutes, then issue the command

Quote:

su -c "tail -n 20 /var/log/messages"

and post in the forum the response.

This will tell what the computer is doing, if has recognised the modem or not, what kind of errors.

I have to admit, that time to time there are some working that stop working for me. As I have said, the case wiith my modem in Fedora 12. So far for me Fedora 14 has make things work, that were not working before, like the mic imput of my laptop.

Best regards