Jaunty and iBurst USB

[onegreenparker]

Hi There,
Has anyone managed to get the iBurst USB modem working on 9.04?
I had success from 6.06 to 8.04 (if memory serves).
Absolutely no luck on 9.04

[onegreenparker]

Success!

Below are the steps I used to get my USB iBurst modem up and running on my 64bit Jaunty:

0) USe Synaptic to add Live/Install CD as a repo and Reload Package Information
1) Install build-essential_11.4amd64.deb from the CD
2) Download ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 from here
3) Unpack the downloaded file to a suitable location
4) In Makefile, comment out obj-m += ib-pcmcia.o
4) Open shell and go to parent directory of the unpacked files
4) $ make -C ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28
5) $ sudo make -C ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 install
6) Once those worked, I ran sudo pppoeconf and followed instructions

And connected...

[onegreenparker]

Sadly, on the second attempt at this after a clean install, the above did not work......

Error below (same as always):

$ make -C ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28
make: Entering directory `/home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-net.o
/home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-net.c: In function ‘ib_net_setup’:
/home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-net.c:509: warning: statement with no effect
  CC [M]  /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-usb.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 2 modules
  CC      /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-net.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-net.ko
  CC      /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-usb.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28/ib-usb.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
make: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Documents/ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28'

[zairol79]

HI there, i managed to install the driver but the problem is, once i restart the pc, i have to disconnect my modem, reinstalling the driver and make a new connection using pppoeconfig. How i want to make it permenantly connect like my previously ubuntu 8.10? huhu

[roach33]

any tricks to get the usb modem and 8.04 communicating like they should? I had them working fine with Jaunty - sourceforge driver and roaringpenguin dialler - and then the install on Heron (reverted for the graphics support) failed following the system updates.

[zairol79]

Hi roach33

I beleive you have to use old driver rather than version ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28. Like my laptop is using ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.20 on ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 and my dekstop using latest version ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 on ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[onegreenparker]

I have compiled ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 on 9.04 successfully and connected using all the defaults when running pppoeconf....

All working!

Sadly, I still had to connect via office LAN to get all required packages.

[onegreenparker]

FYI, after running updates for 9.04 available as of today (3 Nov 09), ib0 was no longer available.
Recompiled ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28 and restarted, all OK.

[zairol79]

Yup... we need to recompile and reinstall driver everytime after upgrading kernel.

[karel_debruin]

I installed the iBurst driver (ibdriver-1.3.4-linux-2.6.28) on Jaunty, and configured the connection successfully using pppoeconf, as described above. However, after updating, I also have the problem that requires me to reinstall iBurst drivers after I reboot! Has anybody figured out how to solve this?

By the way, any luck getting USB iBurst working on Karmic?