SDB:Umtsmon
Many UMTS cards can be used easily with Linux. This article has been tested with SUSE Linux 11.1 but should work for other versions as well.
Here is how you connect to the internet using your UMTS card:
- Install umtsmon
yast2 -i umtsmon
- in case of a USB surf stick: attach it
- Start umtsmon
umtsmon
- Enter your pin
- Choose Connection|Manage profiles
- Add a profile with the APN pinternet.interkom.de, save it
- Click Connection|Connect.
It works now:
tweedleburg:~ # ping www.heise.de
PING www.heise.de (193.99.144.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=1158 ms
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=896 ms
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=719 ms
^C
--- www.heise.de ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 received, 25% packet loss, time 4291ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1890.317/2142.079/2282.493/178.426 ms, pipe 3
tweedleburg:~ # ip addr
[...]
9: ppp0: <POINTOTPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500
link/ppp
inet 10.70.158.184 peer 10.64.64.64/32 scope global ppp0