On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:16 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
I have been trying this in openSUSE 11.2 with a Huawei (Comviq in Sweden) and it seems the newer drivers know about this thing of the device having two modes. I think it automatically removed the storage part, and the GSM modem appears. Messages to that effect are in /var/log/messages. I guess the short lived storage device may show up long enough to trigger a KDE event. Couldn't the storage device be suppressed by a udev rule for this specific device? Then no one would see it during it's very short existence. What sort of rule would that have to be? After that, I also have not been able to proceed. I think my problem is that the config asks for things without explaining what they are. So I am unsure if I am selecting the correct values from the very scant info that comes with the device. It is a case of the config using GSM jargon that I am not familiar with. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org