gprs in US

[D. Gassen]

On 05/19/2009 at 1:22pm Seth Rothenberg wrote:

> I would like to use GPRS in the US.
> I have a SIM card from T-Mobile,

I do have a T-Mobile contract with their "Blackberry Addon" Service  
($29 + $20 + some change + taxes and other crap) and GPRS works for me  
with SHR testing (full internet access: IM, email, WWW, ssh).

I use SHR settings to connect/disconnect but I have to modify /usr/lib/ 
python2.6/site-packages/shr_settings_modules/shr_gprs.py since it  
doesn't store the information when I reboot the FR:

> #enter your apn, login && password here: - TODO - store that  
> somewhere, maybe in opreferencesd
> apn, login, password = "wap.voicestream.com", "internet", "internet"

(user name and password don't matter for T-Mobile USA)

On 05/19/2009 at 1:22pm Seth Rothenberg wrote:

> I get an IP address and DNS information,

How do you know that you did receive DNS and an IP address?

When GRPS is up (and PPP is running) I have the following interface  
configured:

> root at om-gta02:~# ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>           inet addr:25.211.125.244  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask: 
> 255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>           RX bytes:128 (128.0 B)  TX bytes:177 (177.0 B)

My default route is:

> root at om-gta02:~# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref     
> Use Iface
> 10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0       
> 0        0 ppp0
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0       
> 0        0 usb0
> 0.0.0.0         10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0         UG    0       
> 0        0 ppp0
> root at om-gta02:~#

which points correctly to the ppp0 device.

I get the following DNS configuration:

> root at om-gta02:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 10.177.0.34
> nameserver 10.163.140.242


On 05/19/2009 at 1:22pm Seth Rothenberg wrote:

> but I have no route to the Internet via gprs.
> (Actually, I have no route to anywhere except usb0
> as long as I am connected to gprs :-)

Hm, do you have the ppp0 device? Did you see anything go wrong in  
dmesg/logread when connecting?

> Based on a message I saw on this list,
> I thought this would work (T-mobile prepaid).
> (wap.voicestream.com; guest/guest :-)

I am not sure if it works with a prepaid card. I thought prepaid cards  
(usually) only offer voice services.

> (My present Distro is SHR,  flash seems to be at Moko8,
> I'm thinking I'll upgrade to Moko11 Real Soon Now. )

GPRS was working for me with Moko8, too.

Dirk