[SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

awayand · 2011-05-31 17:27:47

I still have to occasionally boot into Windows to be able to access the SMS on my laptop SIM card. I am using Acer's own tool read the SMS and occasionally send some. Is there a way to do this in my arch OS? dmesg tells me I have a Huawei device, and wifi does work which I think is on the same card. I am completely new to dealing with 3g modems, does anyone know if I can use this hardware in archlinux to read SMS on my SIM card?

Last edited by awayand (2011-06-02 06:15:38)

twilight0 · 2011-05-31 21:13:23

Welcome to the bright world of ArchLinux:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_3G_Modem

awayand · 2011-06-01 01:15:39

thanks for that! Unfortunately I still couldn't figure out how to read sms... I tried umtsmon from aur, but it just won't start. I tried all apps on the wiki you mentioned, but only wvdial seemed to work, at least it output something about the modem working, but still, I cannot read sms. Any other ideas?

twilight0 · 2011-06-01 20:24:27

You probably need a special program to receive and send SMS from Linux, but I havent seen any, it could be out there, but I used 3G Modem in the recent past only to browse the internet with networkmanager.

awayand · 2011-06-02 03:16:29

I found an app called gammu which allows me to send/receive sms which seems to be very advanced, I can highly recommend it. However, I am having some issues, mainly that my sms doesn't show up in the gui, only in log files. So I posted a message to the gammu mailing list, will keep you updated and if successful, update the wiki, I guess under "3g" somewhere, there is already a nice article about 3g modems... If in the meantime someone can shed some light on my issue, I have copy-pasted my question on the gammu forum here as well for the curious:

Hi,
I have the following config:
$ gammu identify
Device : /dev/ttyUSB0
Manufacturer : huawei
Model : unknown (EM770W)
Firmware : 11.126.07.02.00
IMEI : xxx
SIM IMSI : xxx
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 12d1:140c Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
I removed PIN protection from my SIM to keep things easy. I started up
gammu and it connected fine to my "phone". This is actually a built-in
3g card in my Acer3810TG laptop.
When I try to retrieve SMS message off of my SIM or click the "Read" or
"Unread" messages, I only get a blank screen on the right side of the
gammu window. Nothing shows. But when I enable logging within gammu and
restart gammu, I can see definitely on my terminal that gammu is in fact
receiving my sms messages.
What can I do to see them in my gammu interface? Is there a bug that
doesn't allow gammu to display these? Do I need to change my config?
Searching the database on the gammu homepage, I cannot find my specific
modem.
If you could enlighten me to fix this, I would love to update the
database on the gammu homepage accordingly.

awayand · 2011-06-02 05:37:44

Finally figured out a way, even though I would prefer wammu as it seems more advanced. Until I have a solution for wammu, here is what I did using gnokii, I will update the wiki accordingly:

$ pacman -Sy gnokii
$ mkdir -p $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnokii

(as this is usually ~/.config/gnokii, I will refer to it as so:)

$ cp /etc/gnokiirc ~/.config/gnokii/config

edit ~/.config/gnokii/config as follows:

port = /dev/ttyUSB0

At least for me it was this port, you may have to use /dev/ttyUSB1 or something else.

model = AT
connection = serial

Also, make sure you are part of the uucp group, for example if your user is called "x" and assuming you have sudo rights:

$ sudo gpasswd -a x uucp
$ newgrp uucp

The newgrp command allows you to take advantage of the new group assignment immediately without having to logout/login as lots of times it is suggested.

Then launch gnokii:

$ xgnokii

Click on the "SMS" icon button, a window opens up. Then click: "messages->activate sms reading". Your messages will show up in the window.

EDIT: updated wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … eading_SMS
EDIT2: and here is a small command-line script, also in the wiki-link above, that will let you read the SMS on your sim-card without using the GUI:

gnokii --getsms SM 0 end 2>&1|grep Text -A1 -B3|grep -v Text

Last edited by awayand (2011-06-02 07:10:30)

twilight0 · 2011-06-02 08:37:20

Nice! Good work, I am glad you worked it out.

Last edited by twilight0 (2011-06-02 08:38:40)

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#1 2011-05-31 17:27:47

[SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#2 2011-05-31 21:13:23

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#3 2011-06-01 01:15:39

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#4 2011-06-01 20:24:27

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#5 2011-06-02 03:16:29

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#6 2011-06-02 05:37:44

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

#7 2011-06-02 08:37:20

Re: [SOLVED] UMTS/3g (GTM382E) support for Acer Aspire AS3810TG

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