3G Mobile Broadband in Linux/Backtrack

Setting up 3g Mobile Broadband in Linux/Backtrack

 

 want to run 3G Mobile Broad in Linux/Backtrack ??

OK .. let's start :D

About Sakis3g

Sakis3G is a tweaked shell script which is supposed to work out-of-the-box for establishing a 3G connection with any combination of modem or operator. It automagically setups your USB or Bluetooth™ modem, and may even detect operator settings. You should try it when anything else fails!

Now let's browse to http://www.sakis3g.org/ and scroll down until you see the download section if you don't know witch version to download. Just download the the first one 

i386 - Fullversion

Now before we run it lets go back to windows and check the 3G dongle setting. First, most important thing is everything you see and take note of is case sensitive. Now what do we need.

1. Name of your APN incase sakis3g does not acquire it automatically.

2. Your user name and password 

Now the password might be a bit tricky as you can see in mine my user name is Zain and my password is a four letter or digit password. Most if not all companies would have something like 0000 1111 1234 or it can be exactly the same as your user name.

Now after we got all the information we needed let's reboot into linux. Make sure you are not connected to any to anything before you start. Browse to where you have downloaded Sakis3g and run these commands.

gunzip sakis3g.gz

chmod +x sakis3g

./sakis3g --interactive

Once you run the interactive GUI it will give you four options pick option one and press enter.






 

It will the ask you what interface pick the first one like I have and press enter.

Good if you get this screen that means it has automatically found your APN so what is left to do is put in our username and password. Remember case sensitive information.

 

Now you just get this message when I first saw this I thought it was an error massage but what it was actually saying I was connected. 
***NOTE***
The only way you'll know your connected is with this message and will not show up in your connection list in Wicid manager. 

we're done .. but we have a small problem
next time when you start your computer you need to do all this stuff again :/
don't worry i just find a solution for that

For this we have to create 'sakis3g.conf' file in /etc directory and then add this line to-
APN="CUSTOM_APN" CUSTOM_APN="custom.apn.name" APN_USER="username" APN_PASS="password"

and You can create a shortcut of sakis3g to your desktop.
Go to Main Menu -  More Options - Create Desktop Shortcut

That's it for this tutorial if you have any questions feel free to ask.