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Setting Up Chricket A600 USB WiMax Device

Requires Ubuntu 9.04 to work

Credit goes here

These devices need to be activated on a Windows or MacOS machine before they will work on ubuntu. If the device needs to be activated after it gets to us, there is a machine with OS-X in mac land which we can use for activating. Just install the software package in OS-X, run the cricket program and when asked allow the machine to activate the device. The activation takes about 2 minutes, and may report (incorrectly) that it failed. Once the device is activated it should show the cricket wireless network inside of the program.

Once the device has been activated on another machine, connect it to the Ubuntu machine and run the fallowing in terminal:

wget http://freegeek.errtech.com/Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz
tar xzvf Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz
cd usb_modeswitch-0.9.7
sudo make install
chmod +x flipflop.sh
sudo ./flipflop.sh

The device will need to be activated with the flipflop script each time it is connected. To make things easier for the user you may wish to create a launcher on the desktop that runs this script (gksu ~/usb_modeswitch/flipflop.sh)

Once activated, the device will appear in network manager as "Auto Mobile Broadband (CDMA) conenction". When connected it will show up as a 'cell tower' icon.

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 == Setting Up Chricket A600 USB WiMax Device ==
-This device seems to act as a flash drive first and a wireless card second, these instructions explain how to make it switch.
+'''Requires Ubuntu 9.04 to work'''
 Credit goes [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1146110 here]
-Download the .tar.gz file from here and extract the contents to your preferred directory using the following command
+These devices need to be activated on a Windows or MacOS machine before they will work on ubuntu. If the device needs to be activated after it gets to us, there is a machine with OS-X in mac land which we can use for activating. Just install the software package in OS-X, run the cricket program and when asked allow the machine to activate the device. The activation takes about 2 minutes, and may report (incorrectly) that it failed. Once the device is activated it should show the cricket wireless network inside of the program.
-[http://freegeek.errtech.com/Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz]
-Open up terminal and enter the following command
+Once the device has been activated on another machine, connect it to the Ubuntu machine and run the fallowing in terminal:
-    tar xzvf Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz
-and use cd to change into the directory of the extracted files.
-bit Users - Install usb_modeswitch with the following command (precompiled):
+ wget http://freegeek.errtech.com/Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz
+ tar xzvf Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz
+ cd usb_modeswitch-0.9.7
   sudo make install
+  chmod +x flipflop.sh
-bit Users - We need to recompile modeswitch to work on the 64bit platform. Run the following commands in terminal to do so
- sudo apt-get install build-essential
- sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
- rm usb_modeswitch
-  make
- sudo make install
-Plug in your Cricket A600 to an open USB port, wait a moment for it to be detected as a CD drive/the auto play menu to pop up. Now we just need to execute the flipflop.sh, it is in the directory of files you extracted, by running the following command
   sudo ./flipflop.sh
-Please note you need to first make this file executable by running the following command
+The device will need to be activated with the flipflop script each time it is connected. To make things easier for the user you may wish to create a launcher on the desktop that runs this script (gksu ~/usb_modeswitch/flipflop.sh)
- chmod +x flipflop.sh
-After running the flipflop.sh you need to wait about 12 seconds and then poof! Your Cricket device should now appear in your network manager as a connection option.
-Useful Notes
-You will need to
- sudo flipflop.sh
-each time you attach the device for it to work.
+Once activated, the device will appear in network manager as "Auto Mobile Broadband (CDMA) conenction". When connected it will show up as a 'cell tower' icon.
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Setting Up Chricket A600 USB WiMax Device

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