More configuration options for Mobile Broadband in Network Manager

[Samer Atiani <satiani gmail com>]

Hello,

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, and I'm trying to configure my ZTE 636 Mobile Broadband modem to connect to the Cellcom/Israel network. If I use the default settings provided by Ubuntu, the connection could be established, but I could make no actual connection to anywhere on the internet (trying to ping any known IP addresses results in timeouts).

However, I've managed to get it working with wvdial, here is what my wvdial.conf looks like:

[Dialer Defaults]
Phone = *99#
Username = abc
Password = abc
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB2
Baud = 460800
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = AT&F &D2 &C1
Init3 = ATS7=60 S30=0 S0=0
Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internetg"
ISDN = off
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Dial Attempts = 1
Abort on No Dialtone = off
Stupid Mode = on

I think the critical part here are those four modem initialization commands:

Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = AT&F &D2 &C1
Init3 = ATS7=60 S30=0 S0=0
Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internetg"

is there anyway to apply those commands from inside network manager? Do you recommend some other way?

Many thanks!
Samer