Sunday, August 7, 2011

Setting up a Huawei 3G Modem in Ubuntu 10.04

After a loooong time, got a chance to write a post (since it's short).

I was planning to buy a HSDPA dongle for a quite a some time now, but didn't feel it is that necessary since I have an ADSL connection at my home and there's WIFI and LAN connections at University. But a recent incident made me to buy one and I bought a Huawei E171 dongle.

When I try it on my Ubuntu 10.04 it showed nothing but the software (mostly exe files) inside the USB. Then I tried creating a new connection under 'Mobile Broadband' and try to connect, still it failed to connect. :( (totally frustrated)

Then I Googled a bit and found out that I need to install "usb-modeswitch" package, due to a known bug.

So I ran, "sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch", and I saw that it installs an additional package called "usb-modeswitch-data".

After reconnecting my dongle and connecting to the connection I created under 'mobile broadband', I was able to connect to the Internet successfully!

Just thought to share, in case some of you get into the same trouble in future! :-)

See you all with another post!

5 comments:

Pathum Madushanka said...

Hi Nimal,

I faced the same problem and able to set up mobile broadband connection using your information.Thanks a lot.

Pathum

Nirmal Fernando said...

Glad to hear that Pathum! Thanks for taking your time to put a comment here! :)

Isuru Krishantha Wijesinghe said...

Hi Nimal,

Maxsa machan..I wasted a lot of time to get connect my dongle on ubuntu..I followed your method..It was success..

Thanks a lot!!!!

Nirmal Fernando said...

Great!! Thanks for leaving a comment!!

Unknown said...

thanks a lot it was usefull for me also