gprs in US
D. Gassen
dirk.gassen at web.de
Tue May 19 20:52:30 CEST 2009
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
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