[SOLVED] Huawei E172 Mobile Broadband on Vodafone

[Sealbhach]

When I had my Huawei E220, I used Gnome-PPP. It's a GUI dial-up modem inteface.

Works very well.

sudo apt-get install gnome-ppp

Is your modem connecting to the interweb now?


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[wheezy-weasel]

Hi,

I have installed and tried gnome-ppp

Output from log:

--> Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!"
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATM1L3DT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATM1L3DT*99#
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Jul 29 13:49:02 2008
--> Pid of pppd: 17314
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local  IP address 10.49.119.99
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> primary   DNS address 10.203.65.68
--> secondary DNS address 10.203.65.68

Not loading pages.
Tried to ping google by name and by IP - network unreachable.

[wheezy-weasel]

Hi,

I just rebooted and tried again with gnome-pppd and it connected immediately and I could ping google, however I still could not display any pages in my browser.

Obviously I'm now just doing something very stupid. Any advice for the simpleton

Cheers,

[p221072]

This is what I found for the AP (here):
Access Point (APN) address : internet (Contract)
Access Point (APN) address : pp.vodafone.co.uk(PAYG)
Looking at the stream it seems you are connected! Just leave the terminal open in background and as you already found out, press ^C to close the connection.

[wheezy-weasel]

Thanks P221072 - I am replying connected via wvdial!

Solved.

Cheers

[p221072]

I'm happy you made it!
Please mark the thread as SOLVED from the Thread Tools link in the upper right side of the page, this might help other people.
Cheers
Paolo

[wheezy-weasel]

Ok, I know I marked this solved, however, I brought my ubuntu box into work today and just tried to connect with wvdial as before, and it just keeps repeating 'carrier not found'.

I have just re-tested the modem on my xp box and it worked fine.

Any suggestions?

Update:

I have just tried again at home and the modem connected first time - I am using it now. Can't understand why it didn't work earlier, in the centre of London, when it worked fine on xp box.

[Sealbhach]

I have just tried again at home and the modem connected first time - I am using it now. Can't understand why it didn't work earlier, in the centre of London, when it worked fine on xp box.

Weird.


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[wheezy-weasel]

Weird is right - I have brought laptop into work to test again and this time, after several attempts it connected on 3g ok.

Will accept temperamental nature of this beast and shut up now.

Cheers

[wheezy-weasel]

I have had some help from the betavine forums, in this thread.

In essence, it seems there is a driver conflict. The steps taken to overcome it were:

sudo echo "blacklist airprime" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-airprime

Then reboot.

Remove the ~/.vmc2 directory

Run vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux again

He presto, it works (sometimes... other times doesn't get nameserver?)