Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C wrote:

> I've got a Vodaphone UMTS USB stick, model K3565-Z that I'm trying to
> get working with openSUSE and KDE4.
>
> I've done some digging, and figured out how to get the USB stick
> correctly identified as a Broadband device.  Plug it in, wait for it
> to be identified as a ZEROCD device.  Open Dolphin and Eject the
> device.  Then it's picked up as a GSM Modem.
>
> dmesg reports it as a ZTE CDMA Technologies MSM
>
> From there, I've been able to set up the device in the Network
> Manager... but that's about as far as I get... I'm not really sure
> what info is required in the NetworkManager... I can enter:
>    - Number (known if I assume this is the SIM phone number)
>    - Username (not used)
>    - Password (not used)
>    - APN (known, and set to web.vodaphone.de)
>    - Type (set to Any, but can set to 3G UTMS)
>    - PIN (known, provided with the SIM card)
>    - PUK (known, provided with the SIM card)
>
> I've connected it in Windows... and it works there, so the device
> works.
>
> Has anyone managed to get one of these things to connect via Linux?

c't did an article on UMTS sticks in the issue dated 21/12/2009, and
they couldn't get the Vodafone stick (they called it Huawei K3765) to
work because the mode-switch between zeroCD and normal mode couldn't be
done from Linux.   


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (8.7°C)

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