[plug] Getting a Vodaphone Huawei dongle working

[Richard Meyer]

Sorry I should have ended that tirade with - +ACI-Any ideas?+ACI

How do I get Evolution to disregard NM?

Thanks in advance

On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 21:02 +-1100, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 Thanks for the thoughts -  I managed to get it going via the sakis3g
+AD4 script, but there is a problem.
+AD4 
+AD4 Everything except evolution works .... Evolution seems to look to
+AD4 Network Manager to see whether it is online or not ... and since sakis3g
+AD4 doesn't bother to talk to NM and since NM says +ACI-NIH+ACI (not invented
+AD4 here), it shows no connections.
+AD4 
+AD4 ergo - Evolution is offline, while Firefox merrily downloads all sorts
+AD4 of things and APT updates my system with MB and MB of data - but nooooo
+AD4 - we're offline.
+AD4 
+AD4 If I didn't dislike Thunderturd so much, I'd think of using it ....
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+AD4 Dunno what it would do in similar circumstances ....
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+AD4 
+AD4 On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 15:12 +-0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 01:39:28PM +-0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 The first thing I would do is put the broadband sim in the phone and 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 check the connection is working with the settings you found.
+AD4 +AD4 +AFs...+AF0
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Good plan. (If the phone is unlocked, or locked to the same network)
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+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Huawei K3771 dongle, running Oneiric Kubuntu with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic 64 bit.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Number to dial is +ACo-99+ACM
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Username:password pp.internet:vodafone
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 APN - live.vodafone.com
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 ... which I gleaned from one of those Googled things
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Not if it's prepaid - that APN would need to be:
+AD4 +AD4 	vfprepaymbb
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 The username:password can probably be left blank.
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 http://www.vodafone.com.au/personal/mobile-broadband/modem-setup/
+AD4 +AD4 http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/Mobiles+AF8-APN
+AD4 +AD4 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1849943
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 I'm sure you can get this device working, but one alternative is to
+AD4 +AD4 trade in for a wifi device, should be +ACQ-40 at Dick Smith or other phone
+AD4 +AD4 shops currently.  I have a postpaid Huawei E585-2 PocketWifi2 (+ACQ-2 a
+AD4 +AD4 month Vodafone plan, pay as you go) using the vfinternet.au APN.
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+AD4 +AD4 Nick.
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Richard Meyer
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does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, 
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