BSNL EvDO works on Hardy

Hurray! EvDO works even on Hardy and this time it was simple and easy.

Today Ubuntu released an upgrade for the kernel 2.6.24-15-generic which found to be having a very good airprime kernel module which is required to identify the BSNL EvDO USB device.

You might have read my previous hack on BSNL EvDO, it was bit hard to get the USB device working.

This is what I did on my console after upgrading the kernel to new version :

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-15-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.ko

I just went ahead and added airprime into /etc/modules and restarted my system to get USB device working when ever I insert it. (This is just to ensure that the module gets loaded all the time)

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Martial Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Hi,

thank you for the message on the other forum. I have the kernel 2.6.24-16-generic/ I ve the message:

mart@mart-laptop:~$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.ko

insmod: error inserting ‘/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.ko’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
Do you know what the problem??

Thanks

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Martial Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Hi,
I’m asking myself if I had the same USB modem.
Lsusb
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 007: ID 19d2:fffe Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
What do you think??

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TechFiz Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Hi,

You seem to be having a different USB modem.

Mine is Qualcomm. Have you installed the final version of hardy? I have no issue identifying the device on it.

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Martial Says:
June 24th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I’ve Hardy, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. I’ll have a look on ZTE web site to find the chip…

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