This time I'm going to write how to make the Nokia Internet Stick CS-10 work on Linux. Two years ago I wrote about the Franklin CDU-680 which was a very good way to get online, until 5 days ago when we stop paying 800 Mexican Pesos (about $59 USD) to Iusacell.
Anyway, in the office bought this pretty "Internet Stick", and with a small googling I found that it was possible to make it run on Linux. In some blogs I read that you just need to umount the device using "eject", This is because this stick identifies itself as a "CD-ROM" and when you use "eject" it changes its behaviour and start acting like a modem.
But I have one problem, when I insert this device in my computer's usb port dmesg shows errors while reading the device. Then, it never gets mounted (the first step for umounting it :-)) and then it can't change the way it worked.
Googling a bit more, I found that we can use udev to avoid this connect-wait_for_recognition-umount-dial procedure. You just need to create this rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/90-nokia-zerocd.rules
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0421", SYSFS{idProduct}=="060c", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM=="nokia-testcd %M %s{serial}", RUN+="/usr/bin/eject -s %k", OPTIONS+="last_rule"
As you can see, it depends on a program "nokia-testcd", it is just a simple bash script with this code:
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