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georgi · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

Hello everyone,

I currently live in Japan and I'd like to get HSDPA/UMTS internet offered here by Emobile (http://emobile.jp/). I have an Option GT 3.6MAX (7.2 ready) wireless card, serial number starting with FN (model GX0202). I decided to try try this card first, before signing the contract, so I borrowed the SIM card from a college of mine and tried.

My system is Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20-16). The card is recognized correctly and works fine with the usb serial drivers.

I've read a lot of stuff found on the net, including many posts here.... When I try to connect, it connects, but no internet connection (using gnome-ppp or pon). I've read about the routing problem (11.12.13.14.), but it didn't work for me.
After trying some more things I found out that I cannot see the APN of Emobile. ...Here's some output:

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etc# comgt sig
Trying list of devices
Signal Quality: 21,99
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etc# comgt -s operator
Trying list of devices
Getting Operator list: .................

+COPS: (3,"JP DoCoMo","DoCoMo","44010",2),(3,"SoftBank","SoftBank","44020",2),,(0, 1, 3),(0-2)
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Emobile is not listed here. I begin thinking of incompatibility issues... The original device offered by the provider is Huawei E220 (as far as I can understand) or the other one - D01NE (D01NX). I've found E220 supports up to 2100MHz, but works on 1700MHz with this provider(?).
My GT card supports up to 2100MHz according to official info. ...Though with comgt I can change only Europe/USA standarts. None of them supports 2100?... What I mean is, may be I don't see Emobile in the list because I'm using wrong frequency...

Sorry if I ask weird questions, but it's my first time using such devices...

Thanx

P.S.
My card is Unlocked (the info says "Locked 0"). Is there worldwide just one standart for UMTS/HSDPA, or there could be something different here in Japan?

P.S.2
I tried many things like modprobe-ing the usbserial with id values of my card, no compression, etc...
PIN is not needed (SIM Ready).
Emobile settings: tel.: *99***1#, emb.ne.jp, user: em, pass: em.

turnovg · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

I've tried the card with Windouz. It behaves exactly the same way (only Docomo and Softbank are found; no connection.)
It's seems to be a hardware issue - the frequency used by Emobile is not supported by this card:

http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_jp.shtml

Emobile uses 1700MHz, which is obviously not supported by the GT MAX 3.6 (7.2 Ready) card (or at least the GX 0202, FN serial variant).

It seems like this card uses the Qualcomm MSM6280 chipset. More info here:

http://www.cdmatech.com/download_library/pdf/msm6280_chipset.pdf

or here:
http://www.cdmatech.com/docs_details/chip_tool/chip_results.jsp?chip=21
(RF and PM -> View chipset combinations)

Although not sure about the exact RF&PM combinations for that card, most probably it is one of those that does not support the 1700MHz frequency.

P.S.
Some old logs here:

1. Two logs - first one with the original modem (D01NX)- successful. Second one - with the Globetrotter card.

D01NX card log:
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : home-92b7d13352
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-E2-8B-45-59

PPP adapter {292FF517-0177-4692-A0F1-579670F3880E}:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 60.254.215.23
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 60.254.215.23
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 60.254.193.158
60.254.209.158
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.11.12.13
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.11.12.14

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
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Globetrotter GX 0202 (FN) card log:
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : home-92b7d13352
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-E2-8B-45-59

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : GlobeTrotter HSDPA Network Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : BA-D0-BE-EF-FA-CE

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
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2. Windouz modem log (D01NX):
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08-10-2007 17:11:22.815 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\tapisrv.dll, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.815 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\unimdm.tsp, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.815 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\unimdmat.dll, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.815 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\uniplat.dll, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\modem.sys, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\modemui.dll, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mdminst.dll, Version 5.1.2600
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - Modem type: NetIndex D01NX USB Modem
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - Modem inf path: oem51.inf
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - Modem inf section: NIX.Install
08-10-2007 17:11:22.825 - Matching hardware ID: usb\vid_11f6&pid_1003&mi_00&os_nt
08-10-2007 17:11:22.885 - 115200,8,N,1, ctsfl=0, rtsctl=1
08-10-2007 17:11:22.945 - Initializing modem.
08-10-2007 17:11:22.945 - CD is high while initializing modem.
08-10-2007 17:11:22.955 - Send: AT
08-10-2007 17:11:22.955 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.955 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.965 - Send: AT&FE0V1&D2&C1S0=0
08-10-2007 17:11:22.965 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.965 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.975 - Send: ATS7=60
08-10-2007 17:11:22.975 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.975 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.975 - Waiting for a call.
08-10-2007 17:11:22.985 - Send: ATS0=0
08-10-2007 17:11:22.985 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:22.985 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.416 - 115200,8,N,1, ctsfl=1, rtsctl=2
08-10-2007 17:11:23.426 - Initializing modem.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.436 - Send: AT
08-10-2007 17:11:23.436 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.436 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.446 - Send: AT&FE0V1&D2&C1S0=0
08-10-2007 17:11:23.446 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.446 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.456 - Send: ATS7=60
08-10-2007 17:11:23.456 - Recv: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.456 - Interpreted response: OK
08-10-2007 17:11:23.456 - Dialing.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.466 - Send: ATDT*##***##
08-10-2007 17:11:23.466 - Recv: CONNECT
08-10-2007 17:11:23.466 - Interpreted response: Connect
08-10-2007 17:11:23.466 - Receive Connect but CD was low, Waiting for signal to go high
08-10-2007 17:11:23.486 - After waiting 20ms CD is still low.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.506 - After waiting 20ms CD is still low.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.526 - CD has been raised
08-10-2007 17:11:23.526 - Connection established at 115200bps.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.526 - Error-control off or unknown.
08-10-2007 17:11:23.526 - Data compression off or unknown.
08-10-2007 17:11:53.529 - Read: Total: 53409, Per/Sec: 1779, Written: Total: 17254, Per/Sec: 573
08-10-2007 17:13:53.532 - Read: Total: 994815, Per/Sec: 7845, Written: Total: 128479, Per/Sec: 926
08-10-2007 17:15:53.534 - Read: Total: 6189652, Per/Sec: 43290, Written: Total: 275630, Per/Sec: 1226
08-10-2007 17:17:53.807 - Read: Total: 11758829, Per/Sec: 46409, Written: Total: 462844, Per/Sec: 1560
08-10-2007 17:19:53.810 - Read: Total: 13185008, Per/Sec: 11884, Written: Total: 490670, Per/Sec: 231
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Paul · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

You are correct...

The 1700 Mhz band that eMobile uses is only available in Japan and is 3G only.

The GX202 supports 850,1900 an 2100 Mhz 3G bands which are the main bands for 3G worldwide.

Paul