Activating the CDMA EV-DO Modem Card with OTASP Provisioning

This topic describes the activation of the CDMA EV-DO 3G wireless modem card for use with service provider networks such as Verizon.

Before You Begin
Before you can activate the 3G wireless modem card, you need to obtain from the service provider the dial number that the modem will use to contact the network. The service provider must activate your account before OTASP provisioning can proceed.

Before You Begin

Before you can activate the 3G wireless modem card, you need to obtain from the service provider the dial number that the modem will use to contact the network.

The service provider must activate your account before OTASP provisioning can proceed.

Use the CLI operational mode command to activate the 3G wireless modem card.

In this example, the dial number from the service provider is *22864.

CLI Operational Mode Command

To activate the CDMA EV-DO 3G wireless modem card with OTASP provisioning:

user@host> request modem wireless interface
cl-0/0/8 activate otasp dial-string *22864

OTASP number *22286*, Selecting NAM 0

Beginning OTASP Activation. It can take up to 5 minutes

Please check the trace logs for details.

To check the trace log for account activation details:

user@host> tail -f /var/log/wwand.log

Jun 25 04:42:55: OTASP cl-0/0/8 OTA SPL unlock... Success

Jun 25 04:43:42: OTASP cl-0/0/8 OTA PRL download... Success

Jun 25 04:43:55: OTASP cl-0/0/8 OTA Profile downloaded... Success

Jun 25 04:43:58: OTASP cl-0/0/8 OTA MDN download... Success

Jun 25 04:44:04: OTASP cl-0/0/8 Committing OTA Parameters to NVRAM... Success

Jun 25 04:44:45: Over the air provisioning... Complete