I believe everyone was in the situation that you needed to SSH to a server or mail someone something important. Well, if you don’t have any free wireless access, no dial-up or ethernet, you sure wish some Mobile Connect / HSDPA / EVDO something to hop on the net. Since in my country the alternatives are expensive (about 20$ – 25$ monthly on a 2 year subscription plan for a crappy 512 Mb or similar) i found something that i liked – 25 Mb for 6$ monthly without subscription plan. Thats about enough for my SSH and mail.
Well, the whole thing uses the web’n'walk S model (bout 6$ monthly for 25 Mb, it’s better than no plan = 6$ for 512Kb which is a bit perversly overpriced). So after that plan, you will need the following things:
Kernel modules for:
“USB Modem (CDC ACM) support” and “USB Serial Converter support”
use your datacable and plug in your SE K610i, select Phone Mode.
Actually, this should work with any mobile phone that has adhered to CDC ACM specs (usbcdc11.pdf)
run dmesg in your shell.
Find on which device is the phone registered. In my case that was /dev/ttyACM0 and ttyACM0 is what it will be in most cases.
Edit /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATH
Init2 = ATE1
Phone = *99*1#
Dial Command = ATD
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Password = NULL
Username = NULL
well, after that, just run wvdial and that is it.
Well, nothing special and “new” but it helped me. Don’t be shy to add a comment if it worked for you or not.
Tags: debian, k610i, mobile net, sidux, web'n'walk
