I wanted to configure my Etisalat broadband connection with Ubuntu 14.04. Network Manager has already been uninstalled.
In order to connect to the broadband network, I followed the below listed proceedure.
Wvdial, the software I used to connect, is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the chat(8) program, except that it uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into your server rather than forcing you to write a login script.
To install wvdial
$sudo apt-get install wvdial
As the next step the modem was connected to my PC.
To configure wvdial at the very first time, below command was used.
$sudo wvdialconf
I edited the /etc/wvdial.conf as shown below.
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","etisalat3g"
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Baud = 9600
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Password = " "
Username = " "
Since I don't have any credentials to connect to the network, I kept the username and password field as blank.
The APN was specified as an initialization parameter
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","etisalat3g"
As the final step, I was able to successfully connect to the broadband network with the command.
$sudo wvdial
Configure wvdial.conf in Ubuntu 14.04
October 09, 2014 / by Kushan Sharma / with No comments /
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