Nokia 6680 3G from Linux?

[Unchained]

Does anybody have info / details about the possibility to use the 6680's 3G/EDGE/GPRS from a Linux system? Specifically IPCop / FC3?

 

[linuxguy]

6680 w. bluetooth under Linux

I'm using my 6680 with bluetooth as my main after hours Internet access with my laptop and Mandrake 10.0. I'm going to have to write up what I did one of these days as there seems to be a lot of questions about using Linux with the 6680.

Basically, once you get rfcomm-over-bluetooth working, then it's a simple dialup connection...I use KPPP. I installed the Bluez bluetooth stack & Bluez-utils. I have a USB bluetooth dongle I bought from AutoPage, seems to be a broadcom chkpset. I've been told that pretty much all USB bluetooth stuff "just works". The only hassle I had was getting the pincode to work for the connection/pairing my laptop & phone. The helper script that is supposed to prompt you for a pin under X didn't seem to work on my box. I just replaced it with a script that spit out a fixed PIN, something like

#!/bin/sh
echo "PIN:1234"

will do it.

So far I've used it for about 2 months -- mostly on GPRS, because that's what there is in town, but I've used 3G when travelling. It's pretty good...I'm still looking at the issues that affect overall responsiveness.

 

[Unchained]

I'm going to have to write up what I did one of these days as there seems to be a lot of questions about using Linux with the 6680.

That'll be greatly appreciated

Thanks for the starting pointing, I'll see what I can find on Fedora (and then IPCOP). Upgraded my old 16k SIM to 64k SIM, suddenly couldn't connect through phone and BT, had to redo a bit and then got going...

BTW, I have the MSI BToes USB dongle (from Nashua) and still have USB 1 on desktop PC, connection icon in Windoze (from PC Suite One Touch Access) shows 115.2 Kbps.

 

[Unchained]

Any help / suggestions, please?

I keep on getting LCP terminated by peer a second or two after PAP authentication succeeded on using Nokia 6680 over bluetooth for GPRS. FC3 box and I used the GUI network interface for the setup and activation (after rfcomm bind ...), then get the following in /var/log/messages. Had to use a dummy username and password else it would fail, I suspect it might be something to do with wvdial.conf:

[BTW, the IP that gets assigned is the address of my machine's domain (VPS hosted in the UK), not the machine's local IP, which is obviously private. The private net is just an extension of the public domain...]

Sep 19 21:29:53 xxx pppd[8239]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Sep 19 21:29:53 xxx pppd[8239]: Using interface ppp1
Sep 19 21:29:53 xxx pppd[8239]: local IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
Sep 19 21:29:53 xxx pppd[8239]: remote IP address 10.112.112.113
Sep 19 21:29:53 xxx ifup-ppp: pppd started for myMTN on /dev/rfcomm0 at 57600
Sep 19 21:30:26 xxx pppd[8239]: Starting link
Sep 19 21:30:29 xxx hcid[5400]: link_key_request (sba=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, dba=yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy [dummy values here])
Sep 19 21:30:30 xxx wvdial[8262]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
Sep 19 21:30:30 xxx wvdial[8262]: Initializing modem.
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Sending: ATZ
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: ATZ
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: OK
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: OK
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Sending: at+cgdcont=,,"myMTN"
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: at+cgdcont=,,"myMTN"
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: OK
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Modem initialized.
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Sending: ATDT*99#
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Waiting for carrier.
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: ATDT*99#
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: CONNECT
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: ~[7f]}#@!}!} } }2}#}$@#}!}$}%\}"}&} }*} } g}%~
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx wvdial[8262]: Carrier detected. Chatmode finished.
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx pppd[8239]: Serial connection established.
Sep 19 21:30:31 xxx pppd[8239]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/rfcomm0
Sep 19 21:30:34 xxx pppd[8239]: PAP authentication succeeded
Sep 19 21:30:36 xxx pppd[8239]: LCP terminated by peer
Sep 19 21:30:39 xxx pppd[8239]: Connection terminated.

Then on any request (eg from browser), the sequence restarts:

Sep 19 21:31:11 xxx pppd[8239]: Starting link
Sep 19 21:31:14 xxx hcid[5400]: link_key_request (sba=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, dba=yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy [dummy values here])
Sep 19 21:31:16 xxx wvdial[8276]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
Sep 19 21:31:16 xxx wvdial[8276]: Initializing modem.
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