how to get your ice.net d50 modem to work on ubuntu

published: 15:48:44 Friday, September 05 2008

A quick little how to on how to get your d50 modem to work on Ubuntu. I used the d50 on my laptop my entire summer vacation and it worked perfectly!

The basic setup

Install wvdial if you don't got it already, it's vital for this how to:

sudo apt-get install wvdial

Unpack your d50 modem and insert it into a free USB slot..
The modem is also identified as a normal USB stick, where all the drivers and manuals are present
Open up a terminal window and type:

cd /media/NMT_D50v2301/Linux/

And then type:

sudo ./RDEVCHG

You will probably get a message like "Switchmode Failed" or "Switchmode Success" or something like "Aborted (core dumped)". Even if I got these errors, the modem was installed
Now, type:

ls -la /dev/ttyACM*

If you get something that looks like this, you've activated your modem:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 2008-04-23 09:31 /dev/ttyACM0

Copy the execute.sh located on the d50 USB stick under the Linux folder to you home directory
Edit the execute.sh so it looks something like this and then you are done with the basics:

echo "--> D-50 Linux Connectionn"
rm -rf D-50config wvdialconf_log
wvdialconf D-50config > wvdialconf_log
echo "Carrier Check= nonStupid Mode= yes" >> D-50config
echo "Phone = #777
Username = cdma
Password = cdma" >> D-50config
rm -rf wvdialconf_log
echo "--> Dialing...n"
wvdial --config D-50config