URGENT Help Req [Connecting New VPTCL-ZTE in Ubuntu 6.06]

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URGENT Help Req [Connecting New VPTCL-ZTE in Ubuntu 6.06]

Post by Misam Shah »

Can any 1 here help me regarding the subjected. I've installed Old VPTCL ZTE set (with a serial to usb cable) to connect internet and working absolutely fine, but now those sets are obsolete and PTCL has launched new ZTE sets which are with usb to usb cable, but it is not being detected by my Ubuntu 6.06.
I am :cry: quite disappointed by this as I'd committed my boss to run internet on Ubuntu using new VPTCL-ZTE set which is just not happening.
Waiting for the solution if anyone has plzzzzzzzz reply.

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type "tail -f /var/log/kern.log" and then plug the modem's cable in. what do you see?

also, what do "lsusb" say before and after you plug it in?
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Post by Misam Shah »

Unfortunately I've returned that set. Now after a few days I'll get it back. For the time being I've taken some time from my Boss telling him that there are some bugs due to which it is not being detected. :wink:
But the thread is open I'll be back on this in a few days. Thanks for your reply.
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Dear Misam Shah,
Salam,

Check out below link as its for Ubuntu. However you can do same thing for other Linux Distributions.

FYI, http://sbjaved.blogspot.com/2007/04/get ... ms-to.html

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Post by Misam Shah »

W/Assalam Linux Freak,
Dear thanks for the link but I've tried that and works successfully for the ZTE serial to USB cable set whereas PTCL has launched new series of ZTE sets which are USB to USB cable. Hope you will have got the issue correctly now.
Please provide if there is any link on new ZTE configuration.

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Dear Misam Shah,
Salam,
Misam Shah wrote:Dear thanks for the link but I've tried that and works successfully for the ZTE serial to USB cable set whereas PTCL has launched new series of ZTE sets which are USB to USB cable. Hope you will have got the issue correctly now. Please provide if there is any link on new ZTE configuration.
Better if you could provide Model. Also if its usb to usb then you can use `lsusb` command to see usb devices on your system.

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Post by Muhammad Saad »

Recently someone contacted me with a similar problem. The set is ETS 2552. Here are the changes that dmesg reports on connecting the device on Ubuntu 9.04:

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[  235.564031] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[  235.825569] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  235.920958] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[  235.923434] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[  235.928891] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  235.928900] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  235.929122] usb-storage: device found at 2
[  235.929126] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[  240.932828] usb-storage: device scan complete
[  240.980719] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage     2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  241.037855] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 275x/163x writer cd/rw xa/form2 tray
[  241.038095] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[  241.038247] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[  244.059974] sr1: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
[  244.059997] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
[  244.060022] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[  245.339136] sr1: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
[  245.339159] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
[  245.339166] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[  245.368230] sr1: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 10 00
[  245.368268] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
[  245.368274] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[  245.383149] sr1: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 18 00
[  245.383171] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
[  245.383177] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[  245.434120] sr1: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
[  245.434142] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
[  245.434148] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[  245.465216] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[  245.476182] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
As you can see, it is incorrectly being identified as a CDROM device (/dev/sr1).

On older version of Ubuntu (I think it was 8.10), it showed:

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[  218.562511] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[  218.790254] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
And would not create any /dev/ttyUSB0.

I have told him to try on Fedora. May be this time it gets detected correctly.
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