Netbooks, Xandros and 3G USB
Lo all, long time reader, haven't posted in a while, but for once a serious question (passed on from a friend). He's bought himself a net book running Linux and a broadband dongle, but is having some problems: "I have been and bought a mobile broadband dongle today from O2, It is a Huawei E160 but the Xandros does not see it." I'm not good when it comes to Linux on the desktop, can someone give me a hint what I should be looking for when I go back to him. Best Regards, thanks in advance, etc etc etc JT / mchicago
The trick with a lot of these dongles (not worked with your specific one) is that they appear at first as mass storage/CD block device which offers a autorun for windows with a little connection applet and drivers etc. When you issue an eject/unmount the device then turns into the modem. With my one on Ubuntu it just appears in network manager after I have unmounted it. That said I am not sure what the support is like on the EEE's default installation for these things. If it appears as a storage device at first or they get a file browser window pop up then then I would unmount it and watch /var/log/messages (if available) or dmesg (if not) and see what usb device is detected *after* the umount.
On 09 Feb 09:37, James Taylor wrote:
Lo all, long time reader, haven't posted in a while, but for once a serious question (passed on from a friend). He's bought himself a net book running Linux and a broadband dongle, but is having some problems:
"I have been and bought a mobile broadband dongle today from O2, It is a Huawei E160 but the Xandros does not see it."
I'm not good when it comes to Linux on the desktop, can someone give me a hint what I should be looking for when I go back to him.
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=426542 Suggests that you need to edit the udev rules, reboot and it should be fine. I hate to say that this was the second hit on google... Ho hum, -- Brett Parker
Cheers all... On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> wrote:
On 09 Feb 09:37, James Taylor wrote: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=426542
Suggests that you need to edit the udev rules, reboot and it should be fine. I hate to say that this was the second hit on google...
Aye, I found that, which would explain why "nothing" shows up at all. I also found http://www.greenhughes.com/content/huawei-e169g-easy-way a little after I mailed which might also be easier for him to try first before getting him to edit config files. I'll pass this on to him and see what happens. Best Regards JT
I hate to say that this was the second hit on google...
While googling for an answer is probably the most efficient way of doing
things, i do enjoy the little snippets of info (like unmounting to get dongles to work) that i pick on on this list, that i otherwise would probably have remained ignorant of until i ran into the problem. Rick
Hey James, 2009/2/9 James Taylor <jmon.monster@googlemail.com>:
Lo all, long time reader, haven't posted in a while, but for once a serious question (passed on from a friend). He's bought himself a net book running Linux and a broadband dongle, but is having some problems:
"I have been and bought a mobile broadband dongle today from O2, It is a Huawei E160 but the Xandros does not see it."
My sister has one of those. I think she also had problems using it on the Acer Aspire One. I plugged it into my Slackware laptop, and it worked straight away out of the box. Shows how awesome Slackware is. AFAIK, the device is first detected as a CD-ROM, and you just unmount it and you then have a bunch of USB to serial converters representing the 3G modem. I seem to remember the Acer kernel was quite old and had problems detecting the 3G stick as a modem... but my newer and shinier Slackware machine did detect it. I think there was a kernel module missing, and I wasnt sure if the box had all the toolchain for me to build a new kernel (and I ran out of time). Maybe an online update will install a newer kernel and fix this? Hope that helps/gives insight Srdjan
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