Comments on: How To Use a Cingular Sierra Wireless 875 Card on Ubuntu Gutsy

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By: blake

blake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:57:55 +0000

I got the same /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/cingular: unrecognized option ‘/dev/ttyUSB0 error if you know how to fix this please help me

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By: Mike Fortier

Mike Fortier — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:29:44 +0000

I pasted the wrong log for when I get connected. It should have been:

Jan 11 15:15:26 mikemike-laptop pppd[17331]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:15:26 mikemike-laptop pppd[17331]: local IP address 10.8.137.204
Jan 11 15:15:26 mikemike-laptop pppd[17331]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:15:26 mikemike-laptop pppd[17331]: primary DNS address 66.102.163.231
Jan 11 15:15:26 mikemike-laptop pppd[17331]: secondary DNS address 66.102.163.232

By: Mike Fortier

Mike Fortier — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:27:24 +0000

Sometimes my connection works, sometimes it doesn’t. It takes me 3 to 10 tries before it actually connects. It feels as if I’m getting a busy signal from cingular and I just have to call back. The blue light above the 3G turns blue, but I can’t go on the internet. If I type tail -5 /var/log/messages in the terminal window. It says the following when it doesn’t connect:
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: local IP address 10.11.144.147
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: primary DNS address 10.11.12.13
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: secondary DNS address 10.11.12.14

Then, I type killall pppd to hang up the modem. When the blue light turns orange. I type pon cingular and wait until the light turns blue. If I get a connection, the DNS will read something other than the 10.11.12.13 and 14. This current connection says:

Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: local IP address 10.11.144.147
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: primary DNS address 10.11.12.13
Jan 11 15:06:20 mikemike-laptop pppd[14346]: secondary DNS address 10.11.12.14

If no connection, I keep repeating the killall pppd and pon cingular until I get connected. I think someone wrote a script to do this, but I’m not so good at scripting, yet.

Someone, please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to correct this. Or at least how to automate this redial process. Please be very detailed in your explanation, because I’m fairly new to this and don’t understand instructions when they skip steps that are usually obvious to a more experienced user.

By: Mike Fortier

Mike Fortier — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:28:32 +0000

I had to make one change to the instructions above. But after that, I was able to get the my 875 AirCard to work. I’m actually connected with it as I’m sending this message.

I had to change the ISP.CINGULAR to WAP.CINGULAR in step 2 in the 2nd text file (/etc/chatscripts/cingular). After that change, the blue light lit up on 3G (even though the Network icon in the upper right of my screen still say disconnected). Hope this helps someone.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:24:27 +0000

I Googled this site. I had an 850 aircard working in Dapper Drake, when I upgraded to Gutsy, it broke. I used your scripts, I just replaced USB with S, and WAP with ISP to reflect my pcmcia card instead of the USB card you have. My card rocks.
Thanks a bunch for the guide, and scripts.

By: michel

michel — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:05:27 +0000

I’ve tried these steps but get error message /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/cingular: unrecognized option ’sudo’
can someone tell me what i’m doing wrong

By: metjay

metjay — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:20:49 +0000

Hi, thanx for that nice guide, unfortunately I get an error.

I got:

me@my-laptop:~$ pon cingular
/usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/cingular: unrecognized option ‘/dev/ttyUSB0′

any idea?