Mobile Stream USB Modem User's Guide Version 1.32 for Windows Mobile Copyright © 2006-2009 Mobile Stream. All rights reserved. No part of this USB Modem User’s Guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, magnetic, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Mobile Stream.
Contents 1.Introduction.............................................................................................................................................3 1.1.About USB Modem.........................................................................................................................3 1.1.1.USB Modem Features..............................................................................................................3 2.Using USB Modem with Windows XP/2000/Vista........................
1. Introduction 1.1. About USB Modem USB Modem allows you to use Windows Mobile device as a USB modem for connecting a desktop or a notebook computer to the Internet. To surf the Internet from your PC you will need only a USB cable and a smartphone/communicator with GPRS/EDGE service or CDMA data plan. Bluetooth and Infrared (IrCOMM) connections are also supported. 1.1.1. USB Modem Features ● Support for Windows Mobile 5.0/6.
2. Using USB Modem with Windows XP/2000/Vista 2.1. Installation Unzip the USB Modem archive anywhere on your disk. Windows XP and Vista understand .zip files out of the box, but for Windows 2000 you will need WinZip or another similar program to extract the files. There are two options to install the program on the device. The easiest method is to run the USBModem_Setup.exe file and let the setup wizard guide you through the installation process. Alternative method is to transfer the USBModem.
smartphone/communicator with the USB Modem application installed. The instructions are provided in the Creating a New Connection section below. Once the connection is configured, you just need to connect the device with a USB cable to your PC, start USB Modem, set the Connection to USB, enable the modem mode on the device and start the connection on the PC.
1. Connect your device to the PC using a USB cable and enable the modem mode in the USB Modem application. Press the Windows Start button, select Control Panel, launch the Phone and Modem Options panel, select the USB Modem entry (or named according to your actual device) in the Modems tab and press the Properties button. 2. In the USB Modem Properties dialog select the Advanced tab and type in the string AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”APN” in the Extra Initialization Commands field.
3. Using USB Modem with Mac OS X 3.1. Requirements Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger) or higher (Leopard) is required for the USB or Bluetooth connection via Windows Mobile device with USB Modem installed to work. Mac OS X versions 10.2 or 10.3 should work too but this is not officially supported. 3.2. Installation Unzip the USB Modem archive anywhere on your Mac. Transfer the USBModem.cab file using Bluetooth, IrDA or SD card reader to the device and trigger the setup process by tapping on the .
4. Go into System Preferences -> Network on the Mac. You should see the New Port Detected message box that says that a new network port called USB Modem has been detected. Press the OK button to proceed. Sometimes you would not see this message box. This might happen if the Network panel was launched too fast after enabling the modem mode on the device and the system did not enumerate the USB bus yet.
5. Select the USB Modem item in the Show pull-down list. 6. Properties for the network port will be displayed. Go to the Modem tab and select either Mobile Stream CDMA option (for CDMA 1xRTT or EvDO networks) or Mobile Stream GSM option (for GSM GPRS or EDGE networks) in the Modem pull-down menu. It is recommended to disable the Wait for dial tone before dialing option. 7. Go back to the PPP tab, type in the optional Service Provider name (e.g.
button in the Devices tab to start the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Press the Continue button to skip the Introduction dialog. 4. The Select Device Type dialog will be displayed. Choose the Mobile phone option and press the Continue button. 5. The Searching for your mobile phone dialog will be displayed. Wait until your device appears in the Mobile Phones list (under the same name as your HotSync identifier) and press the Continue button. 6.
4. Using USB Modem with Linux 4.1. Requirements Modern Linux distribution with the USB CDC ACM class support in the kernel (either built-in or as module cdc-acm.ko) is required. 4.2. Installation Unzip the USB Modem archive anywhere on your Linux PC. Transfer the USBModem.cab file using Bluetooth, IrDA or SD card reader to the device and trigger the setup process by tapping on the .cab file in File Explorer. Ignore any warnings about an unsigned application. 4.3. Setting up a PPP Connection 1.
To disconnect, stop the pppd process like below: bash-2.05# kill 4.5. Connecting via Bluetooth Generally a setup consists of two major steps: 1. Configure the RFCOMM channel to Treo and get a device node for it. The exact meaning of this depends on the Bluetooth stack and distribution. 2. Configure the PPP connection as described above and start just like with the USB case but use the device node from the first step instead of the /dev/ttyACM0 4.6.
