[plug] Getting a Vodaphone Huawei dongle working

Sun Feb 5 10:37:19 WST 2012

Gottit.

Looked in the sakis3g script and asked for the connection details and
found the place to connect to is vfinternet.com.au not live.vodafone.com
or any of the others. So I shelved my plans to nuke network manager from
orbit temporarily and tried that. After a bit of irritation asking me
for passwords to open kwallet and such it connected .....

Thanks for your help and patience, Bob. I appreciate it.

On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 00:48 +-0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
+AD4 Richard,
+AD4 
+AD4 Try this: 
+AD4 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f+AD0-17+ACY-t+AD0-54526+ACY-p+AD0-316444+ACY-hilit+AD0-network+-manager+ACM-p316444
+AD4 
+AD4 And failing that try this: 
+AD4 http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2011/03/evolution+AF8-forbids+AF8-online+AF8-if+AF8-ne/
+AD4 
+AD4 I have not done this myself, so ymmv
+AD4 
+AD4 Andrew Adamson
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+AD4 
+AD4 On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Sorry I should have ended that tirade with - +ACI-Any ideas?+ACI
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 How do I get Evolution to disregard NM?
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 Thanks in advance
+AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 21:02 +-1100, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Thanks for the thoughts -  I managed to get it going via the sakis3g
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 script, but there is a problem.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Everything except evolution works .... Evolution seems to look to
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Network Manager to see whether it is online or not ... and since sakis3g
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 doesn't bother to talk to NM and since NM says +ACI-NIH+ACI (not invented
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 here), it shows no connections.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 ergo - Evolution is offline, while Firefox merrily downloads all sorts
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 of things and APT updates my system with MB and MB of data - but nooooo
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 - we're offline.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 If I didn't dislike Thunderturd so much, I'd think of using it ....
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Dunno what it would do in similar circumstances ....
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 15:12 +-0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 01:39:28PM +-0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 The first thing I would do is put the broadband sim in the phone and 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 check the connection is working with the settings you found.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AFs...+AF0
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Good plan. (If the phone is unlocked, or locked to the same network)
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Richard Meyer wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Huawei K3771 dongle, running Oneiric Kubuntu with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic 64 bit.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Number to dial is +ACo-99+ACM
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Username:password pp.internet:vodafone
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 APN - live.vodafone.com
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 ... which I gleaned from one of those Googled things
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 Not if it's prepaid - that APN would need to be:
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 	vfprepaymbb
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 The username:password can probably be left blank.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 http://www.vodafone.com.au/personal/mobile-broadband/modem-setup/
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/Mobiles+AF8-APN
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1849943
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 I'm sure you can get this device working, but one alternative is to
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 trade in for a wifi device, should be +ACQ-40 at Dick Smith or other phone
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 shops currently.  I have a postpaid Huawei E585-2 PocketWifi2 (+ACQ-2 a
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 month Vodafone plan, pay as you go) using the vfinternet.au APN.
+AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 
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does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, 
the abyss also gazes into you.+ACI
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