On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:14 PM, yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 October 2012 15:05, Nick Rout wrote: > >> GRRRR I have a router that Hadley kindly supplied post quake that can > >> take a white 2 degrees usb modem to supply internet for the whole > >> office when your normal wan is down. Very useful it was when the > >> phones and adsl were unavailable. > >> > >> Last weekend we moved back into the city and knowing we would be > >> without adsl for a couple of days while telstra shifted us, I looked > >> for the white 2 degrees stick. Couldn't find the bloody thing so went > >> out and bought one of the black ones, which is twice the speed. > >> Bugger, it didn't work in that router, so had to find a white one, > >> which 2 branches of whorehouse stationery didn't have, ended up at the > >> two degrees store in riccarton mall to get the white one. > >> > >> So the lesson is, these things are not all equal, particularly if you > >> have something like a router you can't do anything to change. By the > >> way the 2 degrees white one is a Huawei E1552. > > > > I have the same problem. > > The white one works out of the box with Linux Mint. The black one > doesn't. > > If anyone has got the black one to work I'd like to hear about it. > > The model number is printed under the panel where the sim card slot > is. use google, or google the vendor:product id, obtainable from > lsusb. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > A wee trick I discovered with a Telecom Huawei stick was that the stick also behaved as a mass storage device and Linux did not not seem to want to inter-operate with it as two types of device. So by ejecting or unmounting the mass-storage device first, you can then run all of the connection stuff you need to to get the modem going. Might be worth a try. -- ------------------------------------------- Zane Gilmore
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