Sakis3g Control Script

I have found that my USB Modems, two of them, did not work out of the box with Ubuntu 11.10.
Not to worry, there is a great script that contains all the pieces for Ubuntu.

sakis3g

You can read all about it here - www.sakis3g.org and what it does. In essence, you use it in replace of your Network Manager or ppp/wvdial. Now I would prefer to use the built in method that the distribution has, however it plain does not work! Instead sakis3g and I have work to do.

I wanted a better way to control it, I created a command line control script for it for my modem. (Didn't like the GUI)

#!/bin/sh

BASE_CMD="/usr/local/bin/sakis3g"
OPTIONS="--term"
MODEMETC="OTHER='USBMODEM' USBMODEM='19d2:1003' USBINTERFACE='1' APN='3internet'"
COMMAND="$1"
shift

case $COMMAND in
status)
    $BASE_CMD $OPTIONS status
    ;;
connect)
    sudo $BASE_CMD $OPTIONS $MODEMETC connect 
    ;;
disconnect)
    sudo $BASE_CMD $OPTIONS disconnect 
    ;;
*)
    echo This is a wrapper to Sakis3g
    echo $0 connect
    echo $0 disconnect
    echo $0 status
    exit 1
esac