[plug] Getting a Vodaphone Huawei dongle working

[Richard Meyer]

Mr moderator,

Please don't bother to forward the previous version of this note - I am
now subscribed again.

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Apologies for posting from a "non-plug-aware" email address, but I'm in
sunny Canberra, and Westnet won't accept mail from me to send on for
some unfathomable reason - don't they know I'm trustworthy?

Anyway - since I'm in Canberra, I want to send an email or 3 or 187, and
I have a fear that data on my Android phone may cost quite a bit. (I'm
using it tethered to send this).

So, I went and splashed out on a Huawei K3771 dongle, thinking
everything would be easy. Alas, it isn't.

I did a bit of searching on the Google and found plenty of people with
similar problems to me, but most of them are outside Oz, or have much
older models or haven't had any answers.

What's happening with me, is that I can see the dongle in the network
manager, and also in dmesg and lsusb, which I will append - but I cannot
make a connection (I think it's authorization somehow, but ....)

It says it wants to attach and opens the connection window with all the settings below, but never actually connects.

Settings are
Number to dial is *99#
Username is pp.internet, which I gleaned from one of those Googled
things
APN - live.vodafone.com
and password vodafone - all of which I gathered from the magic of
Google.


lsusb shows:
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0b97:7761 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 1.1 Hub
> Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0b97:7772 O2 Micro, Inc. OZ776 CCID Smartcard Reader
> Bus 002 Device 018: ID 12d1:14ca Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 


dmesg shows:
> [74644.304853] sr 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
> [75176.908226] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 16
> [75176.908466] option: option_instat_callback: error -108
> [75176.908727] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> [75176.908781] option 2-1:1.0: device disconnected
> [75176.908957] option: option_instat_callback: error -108
> [75176.909102] option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> [75176.909151] option 2-1:1.1: device disconnected
> [75176.909403] option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
> [75176.909444] option 2-1:1.2: device disconnected
> [75176.909696] option1 ttyUSB3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB3
> [75176.909735] option 2-1:1.3: device disconnected
> [75705.822575] usb 2-3: USB disconnect, device number 14
> [75705.822788] rndis_host 2-3:1.0: usb0: unregister 'rndis_host' usb-0000:00:1d.7-3, RNDIS device
> [75721.324105] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 17 using ehci_hcd
> [75721.808335] scsi15 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
> [75722.616409] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 17
> [75730.380123] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 18 using ehci_hcd
> [75730.895339] option 2-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> [75730.895600] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> [75730.895851] option 2-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> [75730.896099] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> [75730.896291] option 2-2:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> [75730.896440] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
> [75730.896605] option 2-2:1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> [75730.896755] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3
> [75730.897998] scsi16 : usb-storage 2-2:1.4
> [75731.897317] scsi 16:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Vodafone CD ROM (Huawei)  2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> [75731.951259] sr1: scsi-1 drive
> [75731.951610] sr 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
> [75731.951821] sr 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 

So it's definitely seeing the modem and the "cdrom" drive.

Running Oneiric Kubuntu with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic 64 bit.


Is there anyone who has anything similar who can share their settings
with me?

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at gardenshark.org>

-- 
Richard Meyer
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself 
does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, 
the abyss also gazes into you."
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

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