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Manually dialling a USB modem on windows/linux

I have been trying to setup up a 4g usb modem with my raspberry pi running raspbian (this post is not specific to Raspberry Pi as I run into same problem on windows later on). The modem is recognized ...
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USB Modem not getting connected after resetting using usb_modeswitch

I have a requirement that I need to first unmount and then mount again the 3G internet modem on ubuntu 12.04 without removing it physically. The modem model is Huawei E173u. So far, I have tried this ...
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Using wvdial in /etc/network/interfaces to enable automatic connection with usb 3g dongle

I have wvdial working from the command line in a debian squeeze 32 bit install. Googling around revealed several suggestions to simply use auto ppp0 iface ppp0 inet wvdial However, upon reboot I ...
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T-Mobile Internet connection via USB GSM/3G Modem on Debian / Raspberry PI 2B

I am using ppp via wvdial, script looks like that (commented lines have been removed): [Dialer t-mobile] New PPPD = yes Phone = *99# Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Modem Type = USB Modem Baud = 460800 ...
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What is the garbage text that is being printed by wvdial in terminal?

When I dial using wvdial, sometimes it prints some garbage text into the terminal. This is not happening every time, but in the garbage text I can see some readable strings which is often irc logs(...
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