Settings for Vodafone New Zealand

[Andrew Simpson]

Binary package hint: mobile-broadband-provider-info

Settings for Vodafone New Zealand are partially wrong. Three services are offered: Vodafone, Vodafone (Restricted) and Vodafone (Unrestricted).

Vodafone points to the APN live.vodafone.co.nz, which is a WAP service (Not required for Ubuntu?). The other two have the correct APN (www.vodafone.co.nz / internet), user (none) and password (none).

Vodafone uses auto assigned DNS. The DNS servers given on the next tab are wrong (They do not belong to Vodafone either). Setting the tab to 'Automatic PPP addresses only' stops the connection working.

Reference: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=9780

Now for the record, NZ has two other suppliers. I have looked up their details, but I can't verify them as working:

Telecom NZ - XT Network

APN: internet.telecom.co.nz
IP Address: automatic
DNS: automatic
Use Proxy: No
Username: N/A
Password: N/A

Reference: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=39&TopicId=32983

2 Degrees

APN: internet

Looks like no username & password.

"2degrees currently runs a 900MHz GSM mobile network. Data is provided using both GPRS and EDGE technology. In the not so distant future we will run a 2100Mhz 3G/HSPA+ network."

Reference: http://www.2degreesmobile.co.nz/settings

[Cai-Uwe (c-jurasik)]

Vodafone NZ Ltd mobile broadband settings are

APN: www.vodafone.net.nz
IP address: auto
DNS: Auto (to verify it should be 202.73.198.16 + 202.73.206.16)
Use Proxy: No
Username: N/A (if software requires -> vodafone)
Password: N/A (if software requires -> vodafone)

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

Vodafone entry is fixed in Ubuntu 9.10 beta (plus updates to today).

Thanks.

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

After running in bug #434477, I realised that the default Vodafone NZ dns servers set in the mobile-broadband-provider-info file are still not correct. This explains the reports by users of problems with Vodafone on the NZ Linux users mailing lists.

Patch to fix is attached.

[Cai-Uwe (c-jurasik)]

Hi Andrew, I double checked the DNS server IP's and looks all good.
Thanks!
Cai-Uwe

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

Reported upstream on Gnome Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608767

Now fixed upstream, which I guess will filter down to Ubuntu in due course.

[Bhavani Shankar (bhavi)]

I think this should be fixed with latest version of the package in lucid

Regards

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

Confirmed as fixed in Lucid. Thanks.