Wheee! Huawei CDMA works in Gentoo!

Thanks to trichotillomania for the configuration settings 🙂

Well according to that blog, I should have got wvdial and configured it. Unfortunately wvstreams (on which wvdial depends) bombed out on me during the compilation :-(. Also, I didn’t use his method of modprobing everytime. I just went into the kernel configuration -> Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Serial Convertor Support, and ticked off USB Serial Console Device Support, USB Generic Serial Driver, and of course USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems 🙂 to be compiled into the kernel. So whenever I plug the modem in, auto-detection magic 🙂 No fuss. No scripts.

Then since wvdial didn’t work (didn’t compile) so I set off to use Gentoo’s recommended way: /etc/conf.d/net
I edited that file, put in a few settings (after reading their excellent documentation) and this is what I ended up with:


#[snippet only]
config_ppp0=("ppp")
link_ppp0="/dev/ttyUSB0"
username_ppp0='username'
password_ppp0='password'
pppd_ppp0=(
"defaultroute"
"usepeerdns"
"115200"
"modem crtscts"
# you can add more here: just look at /etc/conf.d/net.example!
)
phone_number_ppp0=("#777")
chat_ppp0=(
'ABORT' 'BUSY'
'ABORT' 'ERROR'
'ABORT' 'NO ANSWER'
'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER'
'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE'
'ABORT' 'Invalid Login'
'ABORT' 'Login incorrect'
'TIMEOUT' '5'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'AT' # Put your modem initialization string here
'OK' 'ATDT\T'
'TIMEOUT' '60'
'CONNECT' ''
'TIMEOUT' '5'
'~--' ''
)
# ^ blatantly copied from /etc/conf.d/net.example!


Thanks to all the people that have made GNU/Linux such a smashing success! Nowadays, linux support is so great, I really wonder why people use Windows at all. And Gentoo docs are of course unparalleled and unrivalled 🙂

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