[beagleboard] using 3G USB modem to connect to internet

Hi, I’m in need of some help.

I want to attach my Beaglebone to the internet using a 3G USB modem (e.g. Vodafone K3770).
I have the latest Ubuntu distro and Linux kernel.
I can see three GSM modems ttyUSB0-3 (using dmesg).
When I try to install wvdial it says that it is not available?

What’s odd… If your running the “latest” it’s already installed…

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/build_image.sh#L167

Other posts seem to use ppp but are not specific to ubuntu.

Can someone tell me the steps I need to take to get on line?

Regards,

I have tried to re-build the kernel, just in case but I am stopped.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I went to: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

Advanced Users only: BeagleBone Kernel v3.8.x source, used in these demo
images: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/tree/am33x-v3.8

git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev.git
cd linux-dev
git checkout origin/am33x-v3.8 -b tmp
./build_kernel.sh

Everything was OK till I tried to build the kernel.
It asks me for dependencies one of these: ia32-libs will not install! as it
need ia32-libs-multiarch
But this is not installable (or so it says)!!

Okay so obviously, your not running the exact same system as me
(Debian Wheezy amd64), want to provide a few details, otherwise you
haven't provided any details on your host system for us to help you..

aka: lsb_release -cs etc..

Please help, I'm pulling my hair out.

Really after two days? Take a breath, otherwise your just going to burn out..

Regards,

Does this allow the ia32-libs to be installed on your system..

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

btw, what does:

dpkg --version

show..

Regards,

Okay, so depending on how you install wheezy/quanta/raring,

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures is not always enabled to be i386...

So now i check that:
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/blob/am33x-v3.8/tools/host_det.sh#L150

and request that you enable it...

Regards,