[adamjr]

Hi to Everyone trying to get mobile broadband going!
OpenSuse 11.1 x86_64 on a Toshiba Tecra.

A ZTE MF626 works!!!
The Australia ZTE forums have instructions,
I would NOT say it is easy, and I have issues: hoping to get some help with that!

First: If you use a model from Telstra you need to use AT commands to tell it to stop pretending to be a CDROM drive!!

Once you have done that you can see it in dmesg.
Then modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0031
Given the correct wvdial.conf, run wvdial which sets up a pppd connection. It works, I did it myself.

Problem 1: How to modprobe the usbserial driver automatically?
What is the "approved" (yast2?) way to do this?

Problem 2: Manually editing wvdial.conf and running wvdial to initiate pppd, how does the firewall see this connection?
What is the "approved" (yast2?) way to do this?

Problem 3: Assumes wvdial is the right way to launch pppd: I have to run wvdial twice to get a connection. The first time it fails with IPCP Config timeout consistently. Why might I not get an IP address on the first go? does pppd try something different the second time? Is it timing, or does something need to be done twice?

Otherwise I am happy with it.
I will post again with some links!
Adam.