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[OCLUG-Tech] rogers mobile high speed with ubuntu intrepid

It just works.

I am getting about 2100 kbit/s down and 350 kbit/s up. Latency to
TekSavvy in Toronto is 140ms (which is high).

I have Rogers Mobile High Speed usb device from work. It is a Novatel
Wireless MC950D HSUPA Modem. From my research I expected I would have
to do all sorts of trickery to get it to work. There is only one minor
trick. Otherwise the device was recongnized by the gnome network
manager applet (nm-applet). I was prompted to choose my country and
provider from a list. Then the device was ready to work.

The minor trick is to switch the mode of the device. When plugged in
the device apears as a cdrom (to hold the windows drivers). Eject the
virtual cdrom (via software) and the device reloads as usb serial
device.

I did not activate the device. I am guessing that the IT guys did that
for me (it is a corporate account). What I have read states that the
device must be initially activated on windows or macos.

This device should work for other distros that use "network manager"
not just Ubuntu. You should also be able to configure this device
without network manager. The connection is ppp over the /dev/ttyUSB
device. From what I have read a lot of the old howtos use a brute
force method to configure these devices. I suggest a quick look at the
network manager sources first to see what strings it sends to start
the pppd connection.

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sg