Melissa Draper wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >> carlj wrote: >> >>> Gentelmen, >>> > > I'm not even male, so I hope this doesn't preclude me from answering, > even if belatedly. > > >>> New to all of this, however I'm surprise how easy it was to install >>> and see verything working on my labtop, minus my bigpond USB wireless >>> modem. >>> >>> New to this, I'm totally lost in how to try to sort out this issure. >>> Have read the documation and some of your post here on this forum, >>> however that have not help in any way. >>> >>> When i'm looking in the Network Manager there is no wireless >>> connection! that's how far I'm. >>> >>> Hope someone could lead me in the right direction. >>> >> After you've modprobed the module, the device is usable as a *dialup >> modem*, not a wirless connection. You must use the modem device >> /dev/ttyUSB1 and set up a dialup connection to the phone number *99# >> >> You do this through manual configuration in the network manager. >> >> Paul >> >> > > Many usb/pcmcia wireless broadband modems benefit from the application > developed by the Spanish branch of Vodafone [0]. It is open source and > works for any carrier. > > The application is useful as it can monitor usage, and make it easy to > restrict yourself to 3g only, so you don't get nasty GPRS surprises. > Some functions may not work here in aus, but it's great for connection > management. > > The application is still in development, so can require a little > prodding and/or a reboot or two. You will need to download the 'all' > version of the .run file, and run it as root. If you get errors about > permissions, try rebooting, if that doesnt work, chmod the particular > files it complains about to allow world read/write as well, then reboot > again. I set the latest version of it up on my ubuntufied eeepc for my > Soul mobile broadband last night, which uses a huawei e220 [1] modem. > > [0] https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220 > > Thanks for that im still trying to get my 3 mobile working on Ubuntu. This may do it. My main problem is being outside a 3g area so i need to go to work and test then return home to get anything off the net to try again. If it works i will yell. Mines a Huawei_E169G. Leslie
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