http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1432/mobile-broadband-under-ubuntu-1004<p>Hi,</p> <p>As this is my first ever post, please excuse me if I have overlooked some obvious source of info.</p> <p>I seek help with getting a virgin Mobile Broadband G3 dongle working under Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell laptop. I think I am quite close to having done it, but I can't quite get there. The problem may simply be that I do not know what to respond to the network manager.</p> <p>The dongle is badged as Alcatel. When I plug it in, it initially flashes orange, then - now that I have installed usb_modeswitch - it changes to flashing green, which I think looks promising. (However under some circumstances it changes from green to red later)</p> <p>The outputs from lsusb with and without the dongle inserted differ by the line:-</p> <p>Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1bbb:0017 T &amp; A Mobile Phones </p> <p>I'm not sure what I expect to happen, but nothing does. So I assume I need to configure it with the network manager. Here I get stuck.</p> <p>Going to the main menue on the upper panel and following system->preferences->network connection->Mobile Broadband->Add, I am offered a few screens in which I am asked the Provider's country, namelyBritain(UK), The Provider for which I choose Virgin Mobile from a list of options </p> <p>I am then asked my plan, which I do not know, and I have not found anyone at Virgin who will tell me (even when they understand my question). Consequently I have just accepted the suggested "default". The same screen asks me for my plan's APN, but the dialogue box for the APN is not active, so I cannot enter it there. The box contains a feint "vdata", the significance of which I don't know, so I have tried clicking Apply.</p> <p>That takes me to a screen which, under the tag "Mobile Broadband" has some details which I appear to be able to change, including vdata</p> <p>Under "Basic" I have number as *99#, and username and password both blank. From reading posts by people who have made this work, I believe those are correct responses.</p> <p>Under "Advanced" I have APN as vdata and Network and Pin both blank. Again from other posts I think the two blanks are probably correct, but I believe that vdata should be something else. I have tried changing it to VirginMobile and to VirginBroadband but neither appears to get me any closer to a connection. Again I have hit a brickwall trying to get anyone at Virgin Media to tell me what the APN should be.</p> <p>Any suggestions welcome.</p>enFri, 20 Jan 2017 17:29:15 -0000