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Aldi / Medion USB Internet stick on Linux / Ubuntu 11

Currently have a brief WiFi outage due to some problems with the DSL cable/Exchange in kreuzberg/berlin.

So I grabbed a USB Internet stick from the local ALDI, what's cool is that they are the sim-unlocked Medion USB interface, which actually registers as a ...

Bus 001 Device 012: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem

it appeared to work straight away but I had to first do a few things

GPRS Internet with your nokia and pppd and bluetooth

Heres some tips on how i got my Nokia n93i to allow me to borrow it's GPRS internet connection via Three Australia.

Using my debian/lenny linux laptop on 2.6.24

1. Setup your rfcomm bluetooth interface

This is my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file (also attached)
Replace your device mac address with which ever is the device address of your mobile phone..

# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx       dgtlmoon

So in your rfcomm.conf put this..

rfcomm0 {
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