[plug] Getting a Vodaphone Huawei dongle working

Sat Feb 4 13:39:28 WST 2012

Hi Richard,

The first thing I would do is put the broadband sim in the phone and 
check the connection is working with the settings you found.

Secondly, I think that dongle is one of the annoying Huawei ones that 
appear as a cdrom device when you first plug them in, so that you can 
install the connection software. You'll need to install usb-modeswitch 
[1], and usb-modeswitch-data - both of which should have ubuntu packages. 
In my experience you shouldn't be able to see the scsi cdrom when it's in 
the right mode.

If you're sure you've got it in the right mode and your settings are 
correct, but network mangler still isn't doing the right thing - disable 
network mangler and give wvdial a go. I've used wvdial with a Huawei E122 
with great success, but the wvdial config file needed a fair bit of 
tweaking to get it up to a reasonable speed.

[1] http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

|"The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live."     |
| ---Peter's Laws                                                        |

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Richard Meyer wrote:

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