hey friends i’m new to opensuse as well linux.today i installed suse 11.3 and installation completed.then i plug the usb modem (ZTE mf 100) and then nothing appears…i dont know what to do for configure the modem please help me…
First, welcome to the forums. Your learning curve may be steep with this, because of a number of Linux concepts and terminal (command) skills you may have to get familiar with first, in order to get this device working. Don’t despair though, I’m sure you’ll be able to cope ok.
Quite often, these usb modems appear as storage devices to the Linux OS, and the trick is to use a utility like usb_modeswitch to activate the modem device first. Then you may need a dialling utility to connect with, if Network Manager can’t handle the device properly. (This depends on make and model).
I’m going to point you to a guide and a thread which may offer the help you need:
MODEM ZTE MF636 in openSUSE 11.1 32bit definite guide « Weblog Tecnologico
Problem installing USB modem ZTE MF626 under openSuSE 11.1
Read these, and see if that doesn’t help get your wireless broadband device going.
Some tip: First, you’ll have to get so far that some /dev/ttyUSB* is created. Recent distributions are clever enough, for older ones you’ll have to load module “usbserial” with parameters “vendor” and “product” taken from the output of “lsusb”. This only works if the stick has switches mode (usually triggered by ejecting the virtual CD-ROM device the stick provides, but “usb_modeswitch” can be configured to do that as well (it seems). Finally you can permanently reconfigure the stick using an AT-command).
A tip that helped me a lot so far: Put modem-manager into debug mode. As the modem-manager is restarted quickly after killing it, I used this trick (open a terminal!):
ps -ax | grep modem # to find the PID of modem-manager
kill <PID_of_modem-manager>; modem-manager --debug
(Now you’ll see debug output in that terminal. If you’ve seen enough, press ^C. modem-manager will be stopping, and then will be restarted in non-debug-mode)
Finally you’ll have to go into the details of configuring NetworkManager (and using it) properly. There are some nasty details (e.g. not asking for a PIN when one is needed, disabling the device if no PIN was set, etc.) there.