Re: ppp using NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:20 -0500, Darren Albers wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 10:12 AM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 4, 2007 10:08 AM, Tambet Ingo <tambet gmail com> wrote:
> > > On Dec 4, 2007 4:58 PM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Just out of curiosity what cards have you tested with?
> > >
> > > As I said, I don't know of anyone else other than Jon who has
> > > successfully tried it. I don't know what card he has, but mine is
> > > Huawei e630. (I also know it doesn't work for Dan but I'm sure he'll
> > > fix it :)
> > >
> > > Tambet
> > >
> >
> > Ok cool, I have access to a pretty wide range of cards (I currently
> > use a sierra wireless 860) so if I can get some free time to test I
> > can probably throw a few at it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
> Doh, I just realized that most of the other cards I have are CDMA
> (Verizon and Sprint) so that may have to wait until CDMA support drops
> in.   From a configuration standpoint they are the same as the GSM
> devices except they require you to send your phone number as the
> username as well as a password (Sprint and Verizon use generic
> passwords, Verizon's was vzw last time I looked).   They create a
> generic serial device just like all the GSM cards.

I've never had to do that with Sprint cards; I just use bob/smith as the
user/pw.  In my experience, you just need _something_ there, but it
doesn't matter what it is (for Sprint at least).

Dan