I've not needed to get a 3G dongle running under linux but I have on various routers.
one thing I learned is these dongles can operate in one of 2 ways - as an NDIS interface or as a PPP interface. Lately it seems they ship with the NDIS interface enabled out of the box, which I've never gotten to work on anything but Windows when the vendors software is installed. Luckily its not hard to switch the dongle to PPP mode which should be easy as long division to get working. I don't have the details handy. Try google searching configuring ZTE modem for PPP. ZTE actually provide a doco on this. Its just a case of typing some AT commands into the dongle. Easy. if you don't have any luck let me know and ill find the commands. Sent from my BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "james o'regan" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:15:28 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [SLUG] enable mobile broadband, Thanks Many thanks to the linux friends for advice with this. The netbook runs mint & fedora, & i manually installed usb modem when i got it 3 months ago.( having never used linux before; & not knowing microsoft either). I used apple for 18 months,(they didn't use me). Elated at my conversion. Got new laptop configured with suse, kubuntu & pardus. Shop didn't tell me password. When i finally got into it, mobile broadband was not enabled; they had it for a couple of weeks & got network settings to recognize telstra next g modem- thats all. Kept throwing up a bug. Having had enough of their endeavours, i got laptop last week & it's still in box; Haven't had time. Modem is zte - mf 626i. I just typed lsusb in terminal (mint), says its zte mf 636. All i can say is brilliant. What a great learning experience. I may get a chance in next few days to turn on new laptop & learn more. I only just got your replies tonight, again not knowing how to navigate, but finding water in a linux desert. THANKYOU SO MUCH. Forgive my prolixity and thanks for your patience. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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