Can I connect a v220 to Linux with GPRS?

I have a Motorola v220 phone. I need to connect it to a Linux notebook
in GPRS mode.

I have searched both Google and the Usenet. The only thing I have
found so far is a piece of software called moto4lin, which does
interfacing with the address book, java midlets, and other interesting
stuff, but no GPRS.

I have contacted my provider, they told me the username, the password,
and the web page. They also told me to leave blank anything else
asked. At least, that is how they get Windows to connect, they do not
support Linux.

Can this phone do GPRS under Linux?

On 4 Apr 2007 22:35:30 -0700, "Victor Rafael Rivarola (FANÁTICO y LOCO
por Cristo)" <vrrivaro@gmail.com> wrote in
<1175751330.195417.129060@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups. com>:

>I have a Motorola v220 phone. I need to connect it to a Linux notebook
>in GPRS mode.
>
>I have searched both Google and the Usenet. The only thing I have
>found so far is a piece of software called moto4lin, which does
>interfacing with the address book, java midlets, and other interesting
>stuff, but no GPRS.
>
>I have contacted my provider, they told me the username, the password,
>and the web page. They also told me to leave blank anything else
>asked. At least, that is how they get Windows to connect, they do not
>support Linux.
>
>Can this phone do GPRS under Linux?

It should be able to do GPRS under _any_ OS that supports dial-up
networking _if_ you have a suitable driver (cable or other connection).
GPRS is dialed just like a modem call.

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Victor Rafael Rivarola (FANÁTICO y LOCO por Cristo) schrieb:
> I have a Motorola v220 phone. I need to connect it to a Linux notebook
> in GPRS mode.
> [...]
> Can this phone do GPRS under Linux?

It most probably can and it doesn't need any additional software to do it.

I do not use a V220 but a RAZR V3 but this one uses the standard linux
driver for USB modems (cdc_acm) and since the V220 has the same USB
connector and basically the same OS as the V3, I strongly suspect it
will also work with this driver.

I run Kubuntu 6.10 with the default "2.6.17-11 generic" kernel. If you
use a different distribution, chances are that your kernel does not come
with the cdc_acm driver, in which case you would need to compile a
custom kernel. But I don't think this will be necessary.

After connecting the phone to the USB port, open a terminal window, type
"dmesg" and take a look at the output. One of the last lines should read
like this:

[17184241.248000] cdc_acm 1-3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

Note especially the number after the ttyACM (in the example above, it is
"0").

For the next step, you need a serial terminal emulation, I used a
programm called "gtkterm". Start the terminal and set it to talk to
/dev/ttyACMx (with x beeing whatever was shown in the output of dmesg,
e.g. "/dev/ttyACM0"). Then type "AT" and press enter. If the terminal
program talks to the phone, then the phone should respond with "OK". If
the phone does respond with "OK" but you do not see what you type, then
type "ate1" and press enter.

Now you need to set the "APN" on the phone. This is a property of your
network and your operator should be able to tell you what to set here.
For my network (T-Mobile Germany), it is "internet.t-mobile". So you type

at+cgdcont=1,,"your_APN_here"

into the terminal program. The phone should respond with "OK". You can
check if it accepted the input by typing

at+cgdcont?

to which the phone should respond like this:_

+CGDCONT: 1,IP,internet.t-mobile,0.0.0.0,0,0
+CGDCONT: 2,IP,,0.0.0.0,0,0
+CGDCONT: 3,IP,,0.0.0.0,0,0

You have established the serial connection to the phone and set the APN.
Now you can setup the PPP link, e.g. with KPPP. The process is the same
as it is with a standard modem but depends on the ppp manager you decie
to use, so I cannot describe it in detail here. You basically enter
"/dev/ttyACM0" as the serial port, "*99#" as the dialup number and the
username and password you got from your operator.

HTH and best of luck,
Andreas