[plug] Getting a Vodaphone Huawei dongle working

Richard Meyer meyerri at gardenshark.org
Sat Feb 4 15:10:02 WST 2012 

Wow, what can I say?

After reading the link you sent and ensuring I had the packages you
suggested (I had). I found a reference to a script called +ACI-sakis3g+ACI at
http://linuxconfig.org/mobile-broadband-connection-and-sakis3g and I am
now online - that script is FANTASTIC. Yep, I realise I may be overdoing
the priase, but I want to have its babies.....

I was initially disappointed since the Network Mangler icon hadn't
twitched, but I can ping, I can access the Al Gore's invention - the
interwebs ....

If you're stuck, give it a try - almost as worthwhile as using Disk
Doctor in the MS-DOS days to reverse the direction of rotation of your
disk drive to decrease seek time by 2 ms - well worth doing in the words
of Jerry Pournelle (and for those who never read the Chaos Manor column
in Byte magazine - he wasn't quite that bad - but nearly).

Thanks Bob for giving me the pointer.



On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 13:39 +-0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
+AD4 Hi Richard,
+AD4 
+AD4 The first thing I would do is put the broadband sim in the phone and 
+AD4 check the connection is working with the settings you found.
+AD4 
+AD4 Secondly, I think that dongle is one of the annoying Huawei ones that 
+AD4 appear as a cdrom device when you first plug them in, so that you can 
+AD4 install the connection software. You'll need to install usb-modeswitch 
+AD4 +AFs-1+AF0, and usb-modeswitch-data - both of which should have ubuntu packages. 
+AD4 In my experience you shouldn't be able to see the scsi cdrom when it's in 
+AD4 the right mode.
+AD4 
+AD4 If you're sure you've got it in the right mode and your settings are 
+AD4 correct, but network mangler still isn't doing the right thing - disable 
+AD4 network mangler and give wvdial a go. I've used wvdial with a Huawei E122 
+AD4 with great success, but the wvdial config file needed a fair bit of 
+AD4 tweaking to get it up to a reasonable speed.
+AD4 
+AD4 +AFs-1+AF0 http://www.draisberghof.de/usb+AF8-modeswitch/
+AD4 
+AD4 Andrew Adamson
+AD4 bob+AEA-ucc.asn.au
+AD4 
+AD4 +AHwAIg-The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.+ACI     +AHw
+AD4 +AHw ---Peter's Laws                                                        +AHw
+AD4 
+AD4 On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Mr moderator,
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Please don't bother to forward the previous version of this note - I am
+AD4 +AD4 now subscribed again.
+AD4 +AD4 
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+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Apologies for posting from a +ACI-non-plug-aware+ACI email address, but I'm in
+AD4 +AD4 sunny Canberra, and Westnet won't accept mail from me to send on for
+AD4 +AD4 some unfathomable reason - don't they know I'm trustworthy?
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Anyway - since I'm in Canberra, I want to send an email or 3 or 187, and
+AD4 +AD4 I have a fear that data on my Android phone may cost quite a bit. (I'm
+AD4 +AD4 using it tethered to send this).
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 So, I went and splashed out on a Huawei K3771 dongle, thinking
+AD4 +AD4 everything would be easy. Alas, it isn't.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 I did a bit of searching on the Google and found plenty of people with
+AD4 +AD4 similar problems to me, but most of them are outside Oz, or have much
+AD4 +AD4 older models or haven't had any answers.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 What's happening with me, is that I can see the dongle in the network
+AD4 +AD4 manager, and also in dmesg and lsusb, which I will append - but I cannot
+AD4 +AD4 make a connection (I think it's authorization somehow, but ....)
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 It says it wants to attach and opens the connection window with all the settings below, but never actually connects.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Settings are
+AD4 +AD4 Number to dial is +ACo-99+ACM
+AD4 +AD4 Username is pp.internet, which I gleaned from one of those Googled
+AD4 +AD4 things
+AD4 +AD4 APN - live.vodafone.com
+AD4 +AD4 and password vodafone - all of which I gathered from the magic of
+AD4 +AD4 Google.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 lsusb shows:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0b97:7761 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 1.1 Hub
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0b97:7772 O2 Micro, Inc. OZ776 CCID Smartcard Reader
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Bus 002 Device 018: ID 12d1:14ca Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 dmesg shows:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-74644.304853+AF0 sr 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.908226+AF0 usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 16
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.908466+AF0 option: option+AF8-instat+AF8-callback: error -108
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.908727+AF0 option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.908781+AF0 option 2-1:1.0: device disconnected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.908957+AF0 option: option+AF8-instat+AF8-callback: error -108
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909102+AF0 option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909151+AF0 option 2-1:1.1: device disconnected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909403+AF0 option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909444+AF0 option 2-1:1.2: device disconnected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909696+AF0 option1 ttyUSB3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB3
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75176.909735+AF0 option 2-1:1.3: device disconnected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75705.822575+AF0 usb 2-3: USB disconnect, device number 14
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75705.822788+AF0 rndis+AF8-host 2-3:1.0: usb0: unregister 'rndis+AF8-host' usb-0000:00:1d.7-3, RNDIS device
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75721.324105+AF0 usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 17 using ehci+AF8-hcd
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75721.808335+AF0 scsi15 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75722.616409+AF0 usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 17
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.380123+AF0 usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 18 using ehci+AF8-hcd
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.895339+AF0 option 2-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.895600+AF0 usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.895851+AF0 option 2-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.896099+AF0 usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.896291+AF0 option 2-2:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.896440+AF0 usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.896605+AF0 option 2-2:1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.896755+AF0 usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75730.897998+AF0 scsi16 : usb-storage 2-2:1.4
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75731.897317+AF0 scsi 16:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Vodafone CD ROM (Huawei)  2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75731.951259+AF0 sr1: scsi-1 drive
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75731.951610+AF0 sr 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs-75731.951821+AF0 sr 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 So it's definitely seeing the modem and the +ACI-cdrom+ACI drive.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Running Oneiric Kubuntu with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic 64 bit.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Is there anyone who has anything similar who can share their settings
+AD4 +AD4 with me?
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 -- 
+AD4 +AD4 Richard Meyer +ADw-meyerri+AEA-gardenshark.org+AD4
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 -- 
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Richard Meyer
+ACI-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.+ACI
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