Sprint Novatel u727 on Ubuntu 7.10

Add vendor and product options to /etc/modules

usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4100

Disable automounting of USB serial devices with gnome-volume-properties

Otherwise the USB Serial devices won't show up and you would have to unmount WTF that image that is being mounted from the

Create /etc/ppp/peers/sprint
/dev/ttyUSB0 # modem
115200 # speed
921600 # works, abt 60kbytes/sec on S620
#1036800 # doesn't work
defaultroute # use cellular network for default route
usepeerdns # use the DNS servers from the remote network
nodetach # keep pppd in the foreground
crtscts # hardware flow control
lock # lock the serial port
noauth # don't expect the modem to authenticate itself
local # don't use Carrier Detect or Data Terminal Ready
user
ppp
#passive
debug
lcp-echo-failure 4 # prevent timeouts (1of2)
lcp-echo-interval 65535 # prevent timeouts (2of2)
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/sprint-connect"

Create /etc/chatscripts/sprint-connect

TIMEOUT 10
ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
ABORT 'ERROR'
SAY 'Starting SPRINT connect script\n'

# Get the modem's attention and reset it.
"" 'ATZ'
# E0=No echo, V1=English result codes
#OK 'ATE0V1'

OK 'ATDT#777'
CONNECT

Start pppd

root@gutsy61:~# pppd call sprint
Starting SPRINT connect script
Serial connection established.
using channel 1
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0

I might add links to the source materials (cause I obviously didn't come up with this all on my own) but this should work.