Saturday, October 18, 2008

Sony Ericsson w200i GPRS Telkomsel Modem in Ubuntu

Basically I just want to maximize the functionality of my cell phone Sony Ericsson w200i which I bought in last March. Yes I have that pc suite for windows OS. But unfortunately, i'm using Ubuntu in my (office) laptop.
SO, I asked to Mr Google and I got this blog
In my first trial, it tutorial could'nt worked for my cell phone. I don't know why, maybe I just make a mistake in entry the phone number or etc.
Then I remember that my friend had ever successfully using my cell phone as modem in a PC Ubuntu. But, I just forgot to asked him how to do that.
Then I try to find in his blog and finally I got a complete but simple step to do that.

Here, I rewrite its steps:
1. Plug the USB Cable of your Sony Ericsson w200i (sew200i) and choose phone mode
2. Of course make sure that your phone still credit on it.
3. Make sure that phone detected in your PC with doing this command in your terminal

mawaddah@mawaddah-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0fce:d090 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000


You can see that device "Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB" has been connected

4. Do automatically configuration with this command

mawaddah@mawaddah-laptop:~$ sudo wvdialconf


which will resulting in last line like this:

Found an USB modem on /dev/ttyACM0.
Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf.
ttyACM0: Speed 460800; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0"
ttyACM1: Speed 460800; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0"


5. Command in no 4 will also creating configuration file wvdial.conf in /etc/
Adjusting that file to needs your gprs spesification.
mawaddah@mawaddah-laptop:~$ sudo vi /etc/wvdial.conf

For telkomsel use this configuration:
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
New PPPD = yes
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Username = wap
Password = wap123
Baud = 460800

Just make sure you enter the username, password and phone with the valid configuration.


6. Dialing with this command
mawaddah@mawaddah-laptop:~$ sudo wvdial

with that command will resulting this line in the end:
WvDial<*1>: local IP address 114.121.151.189
WvDial<*1>: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial<*1>: remote IP address 10.64.64.64
WvDial<*1>: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial<*1>: primary DNS address 202.3.208.10
WvDial<*1>: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial<*1>: secondary DNS address 202.3.210.10
WvDial<*1>: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]


7. Then your cell phone will give you information that you have been connected to internet.
Just try to test with doing ping
mawaddah@mawaddah-laptop:~$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (74.125.95.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from iw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.95.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=774 ms
64 bytes from iw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.95.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=853 ms
64 bytes from iw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.95.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=777 ms
64 bytes from iw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.95.104): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=873 ms



Yeahh... it worked...
But unfortunately tariff of telkomsel gprs still expensive Rp.5/KB
So, when I just open this blog, my friend blog, YM, and my office webmail in just shorttime. It has use Rp.11.385 for 2.277KB...
I'm bankrupt..... :((

Ohyaa, btw I try one more time the steps ini this blog.
Then it worked...

So, thanks for this blog and my friend

3 comments:

  1. so technical, but great, mmm please share me about HSDPA technology tya! I think this technology is quite cool at this time isn't? hehehe;)

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  2. hmmm HSDPA...
    can you give me just one HSDPA cell phone, so I can try it first??? :P

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