GPRS settings for Vodafone Iceland and Landsiminn missing (only affects Icelandic users)

[Steinsson]

This is not an effective 'bug', more of a quickfix that needs to be implemented asap.

When connecting a 3G dongle to Ubuntu 9.04 we get the following list of providers:

Islandssimi
Nova

The fact of the matter is that Islandssimi has not been around since 2003, when Vodafone Iceland bought the company up.

We need to change this list to include the following providers:

Landssiminn
Vodafone
Nova

I do not have the correct settings for Landssiminn yet. The settings for Nova are correct in the system as is. The settings for Vodafone are: Number: *99# and APN: vmc.gprs.is

[Alexandros (alexandros-t)]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siminn, Landssíminn is now named Síminn. Is this correct at the moment or not?

[Jakub (jakub-hanak)]

Yes, that is correct. Landsíminn is now called Síminn. 3G connection details for Síminn are:
APN type: Static
APN: internet

Authentication:
Access Number: *99#
User name: no user name is used
Password: no password is used

Hope this helps

[Alexandros (alexandros-t)]

Oops, wrong package :)

[Alexandros (alexandros-t)]

Can someone provide the IP address of the DNS servers of Vodafone (and of the other companies)? I've found the file which needs to be edited (usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml) and I want to upload a patch.

<!-- Iceland -->
<country code="is">
 <provider>
  <name>Síminn</name>
  <gsm>
   <apn>internet</apn>
  </gsm>
  <dns>213.176.128.51</dns>
  <dns>213.176.128.50</dns>
 </provider>
<provider>
  <name>Vodafone</name>
  <gsm>
   <apn>vmc.gprs.is</apn>
  </gsm>
  <dns></dns>
  <dns></dns>
</provider>
 <provider>
  <name>Nova</name>
  <gsm>
   <apn>internet.nova.is</apn>
  </gsm>
  <dns>192.168.190.54</dns>
  <dns>192.168.190.55</dns>
 </provider>
</country>

[Marino A. Jonsson (marino-jonsson)]

I've been using my mobile phone as a modem, using Siminn as a service provider (manually adding the provider element to the serviceproviders.xml file) and the only thing needed is the APN - the name servers are apparently provided by DHCP:

<provider>
  <name>Síminn</name>
  <gsm>
    <apn>internet</apn>
  </gsm>
</provider>

If you like to include name servers as well, these are the ones that were provided to me:

212.30.200.199
212.30.200.200

[Alexandros (alexandros-t)]

Here's a test patch. This patch needs to be applied to usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml of package mobile-broadband-provider-info in Karmic and Jaunty.

[Alexandros (alexandros-t)]

Reproduced in karmic alpha 5.

Workaround: In karmic, you can add your own service provider if not listed.

[Björgvin Ragnarsson (nifgraup)]

My patch to the upstream project has been committed: http://git.gnome.org/browse/mobile-broadband-provider-info/commit/?id=da9dadc4d06f9cc62a99124df9a68bbb6e82ab91

Will the mobile-broadband-provider-info package be updated for 10.04.1 ?

[Bhavani Shankar (bhavi)]

New version is the repos containing this fix

Thanks!