Hi Ubuntu Users, you might
just install the newly fresh Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 12.10, but you might not get
the connection to internet by using USB modem. You can’t directly connect
internet connection by just plugging USB device and setting the internet
connection. Ubuntu developers and Canonical Community didn’t notice the small
bug of network connection manager, the problem is that modem does not get detected,
so we can’t setup to the internet settings. So in this blog I will be
publishing a very simple technique to connect to the Internet connection by using
USB modem.
If you have just installed
the Ubuntu the first step is to create the root account in Ubuntu because
Ubuntu and Debian based operating Systems doesn’t have the root account. So we
will have to create it by just entering the following command,
Sudo passwd
Entering this command on
terminal will ask you for password and it will create a root account with the
same password.Now you have to login as a super user, so enter the following command
Su
Enter your root password
Now, you have to plug your
USB modem
After plugging, check if
your modem is mounted or not by the following commandlsusb
This command will list all
the drives and USB devices of your system.
Just check your USB is
mounted or not. It is mounted but not detected, so for settingup internet
connection enter the following command:
modprobe –v option
modpobe is a command to
add and remove modules from Linux Kernel.
-v --verbose
Print messages about what the
program is doing. Usually modprobe only prints messages if something goes wrong. This option is passed
through install or remove commands to other modprobe commands in the
MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
After that you just have
to enter the following command
echo"1c9e 9605" >
/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id
This command will write
the entry for the modem in the new_id file
That’s all now your modem
is detected and you can set up your internet connection through network
manager.