Setting Up the Cards

1. Here are the steps needed to setup most broadband cards that are available in the Unites States from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint:
2. Open a terminal session and login as root
   Insert the broadband card in your laptop
   Wait a few seconds and type dmesg in the terminal session.

Verifying the Card is Detected

1. The messages below are from a Cingular Option GT Max card - yours should show something different. What we are looking for is if the card gets detected as a USB device or something different and does it load a drivers. Mines loads the Nozomi driver and maps to /dev/noz0. Most other cards map to /dev/ttyUSB0. Check in /dev directory to see if the device gets created.pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0

Note: The output should show similar to the below.

pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
nozomi: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
Initializing Nozomi driver 2.1 (build date: Aug 31 2007 16:04:24)
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Init, cards_found: 1
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Card type is: 2048
PCI: Enabling device 0000:16:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:16:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Nozomi driver nozomi_tty
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Version of card: 3
nozomi 0000:16:00.0: Initialization OK!

Configuring the Network Settings

1. Start YaST –> Network Devices –> Modem
2. Click “OK” at the warning message
3. Click on “Add”
4. Set the “Modem Device” to /dev/noz0 for the Global GT Max card or /dev/ttyUSB0 (default) for USB based AT&T/Cingular, Verizon and Sprint cards
5. Un-check the “Special Settings” for “Speaker On” and “Detect Dial Tone”
6. Click on “Details”
   • For AT&T, change the “Init 2″ script to AT+CGDCONT=1,”ip”,”wap.cingular”
   • For Verizon and Sprint, leave to default settings
7. Click “OK” –> “Next”
8. Click on the “Custom Providers” radio button –> “New”
   • For AT&T:
     • “Provider Name” AT&T or Verizon or Sprint
     • “Phone Number” *99***1#
     • “User Name”
     • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
     • “Password” CINGULAR1
     • Change the “Baud Rate” to 115200
   • For Verizon
     • “Provider Name” Verizon
     • “Phone Number” #777
     • “User Name” to phone#@vzw3g.com (phone# is the actual phone number of the broadband card. If it is not available, 2125551212 works
     • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
     • “Password” vzw
   • For Sprint:
     • “Provider Name” Sprint
     • “Phone Number” #777
     • “User Name” web
     • Un-check “Always Ask for Password”
     • “Password” web
9. Click “Next”
   • Make the DNS changes only for AT&T, leave the default settings for Verizon and Sprint
10. Un-check “Automatically Retrieve DNS”
11. Set “First” Name Server to 66.209.10.201
12. Set “Second” Name Server to 66.102.163.231
13. Click “Next” –> “Finish”
    Click “No” when asked to “Configure mail”

Using the Cards

1. Click on the Network Manager applet in the panel
2. Select “Dial Up Connections” –> “Connect to AT&T via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Verizon via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Sprint via modem (modem0)…”
3. To disconnect:
   Click on the Network Manager applet in the panel
   Select “Dial Up Connections” –> “Disconnect from AT&T via modem (modem0)…” or “Disconnect from Verizon via modem (modem0)…” or “Connect to Sprint via modem (modem0)…”

Disconnect Problems

If you experience disconnect problems after 2.5 minutes try this: