Need hints on adding a new device to Network Manager

[Dr.AMA]

Macchi, i Can't say anything to you Describes what i want to say , you solved my biggest problem that make me go back to the hell again " Windows " , thanks and Mellon Thanks .......

[vkrk]

MACCHI

Your work around connected instantly but the connection keeps dropping ever 5 seconds or so despite the signal strength being excellent. any thing else I should do? I am on 3uk
thanks

[vkrk]

didnt realise that i've to restart like in windows. Solved now

[chkhurum]

I tried the method you explained but whenever i plug in my E1550 modem it shows a window with modem content in it. I think system still treats it as USB memory stick.
I checked in /lib/udev/ and noticed that I don't have modem-modeswitch. How can I install it?

When I run the following command sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install udev-extras I got this error on terminal
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]

Rest of the other were downloaded fine. BTW I am using Ubuntu 8.04

[Ralph386]

Hi, I have Ubuntu 8.04 and an E1552 modem. I tried your method but seems that it does not work with Hardy, any idea to make it rock?

[Ralph386]

Hi again, I have Huawei E1552 with a contract with Sonera in Finland. I had Ubuntu 8.04 and I never managed to make it work. I tried Ubuntu 9.04 live CD and it recognizes the usb flawlessly. I decided it was time for a change then I installed Ubuntu 9.04. I know the solution is a bit to extreme, however now I can focused in something else.

Ubuntu ROCKS!!!!!!!

[duleep]

my huawei e1552 was not working in 9.04 but it autorun work and show mobile partner icon on Desktop. this is work well before few week. plz help to me

[kiruri]

Here is a method (workaround) to use the Huawei E1550 Mobile Broadband HSDPA 3.6Mbps modem in Ubuntu with the Network Manager. Open a terminal and follow the three steps:

1) Install udev-extras from the standard Ubuntu repositories:
[code]
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install udev-extras

Do you know how to workaround the problem of unmet dependencies?

If I try [sudo apt-get install udev-extras] it says that it depends on udev:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
udev-extras: Depends: udev (>= 136-1) but it is not going to be installed

I have udev (147~-6.1) on my Ubuntu 9.10

I can not downgrade udev package, so I can not uninstall udev-extras. Nor a I can install udev-extras from downloaded debian package manually.

My repositories list is ok, [sudo apt-get update] also has been run.


Thanks.

[JeevesBond]

Seems that the udev-extras package no longer exists.

These modems are still a problem in Ubuntu, a shame since it should be easy for upstream to fix.

I'm going to do some searching and maybe raise a bug on this.

[JeevesBond]

Sorry for the double-post but I've been doing a bit of research:

Firstly, it seems that udev-extras has been rolled into udev, since I was able to run

/lib/udev/modem-modeswitch --vendor 0x12d1 --product 0x1446 --type option-zerocd

and

/etc/udev/rules.d/

exists and there's some stuff in it.

Secondly, several (if not all) Huawei USB modems have the same manufacturer and product id, since I'm using an E182E here and its manufacturer and product id strings are the same as the OP (who has an E1550). This means the workaround posted by Macchi should work for other models too.

Thirdly, while the instructions from the OP worked, the long-term solution seems to be to install usb-modeswitch, which also worked in my case and hopefully others too.

The usb-modeswitch solution seems like a bit of a nasty kludge though, a quick-fix when the problem should be handled by the kernel.

TL;DR go into Ubuntu Software Centre, type 'usb-modeswitch' and Install.