Hi!
I am a new user of this fantastic os. The only problem I’m having now is that my modem cannot be detected. As a solution I tried to add it as a mobile broadband connection, but it’s just grey & can’t click it. The only thing I have is VPN.
I’m from Morocco & I’m using INWI Huawei EC122 HDM modem.
Plz any steps, advices or links will be appreciated…,
Best reguards 
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These devices are many and varied and require some work to get them going (no guarantee). I had one once and it went in the trash, yes it was that good.
So I bought myself a Netgear router and never looked back…
Guess what I’m using it right now. I found a pretty cool solution & many thanx to u u helped me a lot by ur answer telling me just to get rid of my modem. Hey Mr! what are u using outside or when traveling? Hope u’re not taking ur router with u 
If sb needs help, help as much as u want & can. If u can’t just shut up & that’s really help…,
I should have said Welcome to the openSUSE forum.
I’m pleased to hear you found some solution.
Your question was not about access on the move and certainly a USB Huawei modem is not for that.
Of course there are many alternatives for connections.
My Laptop has wireless and I just rely on HotSpots. That is sufficient for me. Though sitting as I am now in my home office, if I like, I can actually connect via a neighbour who has a unsecured access point 
I don’t know about the Huawei EC122 HDM modem, but I did in about ~5 minutes get a Huawei K3520 USB 3G modem working on openSUSE-11.3 KDE4 on our my Dell Studio 1537 laptop. To do so I added the repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kssingvo/openSUSE_11.3
and installed the packaged application huawei_umtsmodem-1.0.0-3.1.x86_64.rpm BEFORE I plugged in the modem. I also had knetworkmanager running.
Then I plugged in the modem, and its recognition was displayed in knetworkmanager. I clicked on the icon, selected the modem, and it ‘just worked’. ~5 minute time. I note it took my wife ~3 hours with windows7 with same modem (to setup) but that’s a different story. But ~5minutes for GNU/Linux is a LOT better than ~3hours for MS-Windows.
I wrote about this in my blog Looking for mobile router (or mobile 3G compatible) router … - Blogs - openSUSE Forums (go to the 15-October entry). I have some snapshots showing what this looked like when knetworkmanager displayed the identification of the modem.
Did you try installing huawei_umtsmodem and see if that provides the needed driver/firmware ?
The 3G speed is ok for surfiing and posting on a site such as this, but its not for downloading.
Actually, thou - I AM thinking of buying a mobile router to take with me !! http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/oldcpu/looking-mobile-router-mobile-3g-compatible-router-47/
OK
I see
My mistake. Hopefully @oldcpu will make more sense of this than I did.
Hello lifes2short and wellcome to openSUSE forums. I used to use a Huawei modem to connect to the internet on the run.
I need to know a few things.
- do you use KDE or Gnome?
- did you buy the modem in the same country you are using it and with the same provider?
- did you try the modem with a windows computer before? With other words, are you sure it works hardwarewise and with the SIM?
- if it is prepaid card, did you check that the balance is payed and there is not like “10 centimes” missing? Wind Italy had such contracts and problems.
- Is this your modem?
- Can you plug your modem in the usb-slot and post the output of
lsusb
Remember, please use the code tags of the advanced function to make the output more readable.
Thank you / shoukran ( just in case).
On 19.10.2011 08:56, oldcpu wrote:
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> The 3G speed is ok for surfiing and posting on a site such as this, but
> its not for downloading.
Haven’t you used old-school modems ever
Anyways, I’m getting 4 Mbps download speeds over 3 G here…
Upstream is another story, a lot less, so keeping a server behind 3G is
not the best solution.
Vahis
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Hi again!
Many thanx to all of u
The trick that worked for me is:
This is what worked for me with a ZTE MF100 HSDPA modem on OpenSUSE 11.3 64-bit:
Click on "Start" -> "Computer" -> "YaST".
Enter the root password.
Click on "Network Devices" -> "Modem".
Click "Add".
Under "Modem device:" try "/dev/ttyUSB2". If you can't connect later on, try using "/dev/ttyUSB1" or "/dev/ttyUSB0".
Click "Details".
Set "Baud Rate" to "460800" (might be different for you).
Under "Init 1" enter "ATZ".
Under "Init 2" enter "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2".
Under "Init 3" enter "AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","APN"", replacing APN with your providers' APN such as "web.htgprs".
Click "Ok".
Click "Next".
Select "Generic service provider".
Click "New".
Enter your providers' name (this can really be anything you like).
Enter "*99#" under "Phone number".
Unselect "Always ask me for the password".
Under "Username" and "Password" enter "null".
Click "Next".
Under "Idle Time-Out" select "0 (0. min)".
Click "Next".
Click "Ok".
Close "YaST".
To connect, do the following:
Click "Start" -> "Applications" -> "System" -> "Terminal" -> "Terminal - Super User Mode".
Enter the root password.
Type "ifup modem0". Hit ENTER. If all goes well, you should see something like:
Code:
modem0 name: Modem
interface modem0 is up
SuSEfirewall2: Warning: no default firewall zone defined, assuming 'ext'
To check if you are connected, type "ifconfig modem0". Hit ENTER. Try repeating this step a few times untill you see something like:
Code:
modem0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:1.2.3.4 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:84 (84.0 b) TX bytes:105 (105.0 b)
If modem0 doesn't come up, try a different modem device under step 5 from the first list. If you see something similar to the above output, you are now connected to the Internet!
To disconnect, type "ifdown modem0". Hit ENTER.
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Be carefull to change modem parameters according to ur internet provider with network manager disabled
Next step I updated packages
Now after reboot I can use both possibilities I can get connected using terminal or network manager
This cost me to stay awake 1 night because there’s not that much info about the broadband usb modems in opensuse
& I’m happy now using this wonderful invention
Thank you for sharing your solution. Have fun.
lol ! that brings back memories … (thinking back to my FAST 300 baud modem on my Apple-IIc in 1983).
Thats pretty good. I did not see that sort of speed with my 3G on a test a week or so back. I had speeds less than 1 Mbps.
But I confess, even with 4 MBps I’ve been spoiled by the 50Mbps that I get on our high speed wired connection at home (which we pay an ‘arm and a leg’ for). I can download a liveCD in a couple of minutes and a DVD in about a dozen minutes.
Wrt 3G, I am seriously looking at purchasing a mobile router to connect via 3G, but thus far my wife has discouraged the purchase, as we may cancel our December vacation this year (due to urgent office needs to work over that time frame) and hence it may be autumn 2012 or later before I need such a mobile router. With the 2 of us being internet addicts, when on vacation we want to be able to connect both our laptops and her ipod all at the same time to the Internet. Ergo we need a mobile router.
Hi all on this thread, i’ve been searching for a way to get my mobile broadband to work on suse 11.4 for too many months now, have tried a lot of suggestions on the forums, including changing from ‘ifup’ to ‘controlled by network manager’ in Yast, network devices, but network manager doesn’t seem to work on the KDE desktop for SUSE 
I’ve a Huawei HiLink E330 dongle from the 3 network.
@lifes2short, many thanks for your solution, looked really promising, up until,
“To check if you are connected, type “ifconfig modem0”. Hit ENTER. Try repeating this step a few times untill you see something like:…”
I didn’t get the code you suggested only got
“modem0: error fetching interface information: Device not found”
tried "ttyUSB2, 1 and 0 several times but no luck…device notifier doesn’t see it either.
lsusb see’s it as
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12dl:1f01 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
looks like it’s not seen as a modem but just a storage device!?
@oldcpu, I can’t install huawei_umtsmodem as have no internet connection apart from mobile broadband, my computer is about 10 years old, a Dell dimension c521 desktop, dualcore AMD 64 athlon, with no wifi card!
I tried Mandriva and SUSE 12.1 but had no luck with network manager in these distros either, any help to get this working would be so much apprecated
Hi siouxzy, I do not have much experience in this. But your comment puzzles me.
I do note you have posted on this forum via Internet. Hence you must have some sort of internet access. Hence I struggle a bit with your statement that you ‘can’t install huawei_umtsmodem’.
Can you not just access the internet (via same method you made to do the above post), copy the rpm to a USB stick, then boot to your openSUSE, plug in the USB stick with the rpm, and copy the rpm to the PC. … You may need to do a few iterations to obtain all the rpms needed, but theoretically it should be doable.
I didn’t get the code you suggested only got
“modem0: error fetching interface information: Device not found”
tried "ttyUSB2, 1 and 0 several times but no luck…device notifier doesn’t see it either.
lsusb see’s it as
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12dl:1f01 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
looks like it’s not seen as a modem but just a storage device!?
Install the ‘usb_modeswitch’ package from the install DVD. The package manager should also install the associated ‘usb_modeswitch-data’ package. After this, plug in your USB broadband modem, and it should be recognised as such. From there, it should be possible to be configured and handled via the network manager.
Thanks oldcpu, I love that word ‘theoretically’ 
i connect to the internet on my lap top using windows vista but have yet to have any success installing software downloaded on windows and copied to Linux. I did what you say and copied rpm to SUSE desktop and got ‘impossible to install’ ‘this item is not supported by your backend, or is not a file’!
Am thinking i’ll try download 12.2 and if it doesn’t work then… is it possible to buy 12.2 yet!?, i wonder about the trials of getting an OS working from a download!?
Thanks deano, installed usb modeswitch and data package restarted but device still only seen as mass storage!? Network manager has mobile broadband tab greyed out so can’t set it up there either!!.. caf4926’s words keep coming back to me ‘These devices are many and varied and require some work to get them going (no guarantee). I had one once and it went in the trash, yes it was that good.’ I know other distros like Mint or ubuntu have less of a problem with mobile b/band but so wish i could use it with suse 
Thanks deano, installed usb modeswitch and data package restarted but device still only seen as mass storage!?
That surprises me, since your device is supported, and there is a rule for dealing with it (that usb_modeswitch provides) in /lib/ude/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules
# Huawei E353 (3.se)
ATTRS{idVendor}=="12d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1f01", RUN+="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"
It’s the chipset that matters for recognition.
Try this manually: Plug in your usb device, then observe
dmesg|tail
You should see something like /dev/sr1 (storage device) present. Now type
eject /dev/sr1
but modify according to the device name sr0, sr1 etc.
BTW, you will need to be a member of the cdrom group, or run the previous command as root.
Once the device storage device has been disabled, you should now see the device detected as a modem
ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*
Any ttyUSB* nodes listed? If so, try configuring with the NM.
If necessary, we can create a udev rule to make this happen automatically.
Network manager has mobile broadband tab greyed out so can’t set it up there either!!.
No, forget trying that until you have a modem device present for NM to work with!
siouxzy wrote:
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> Hi all on this thread, i’ve been searching for a way to get my mobile
> broadband to work on suse 11.4
> …
> lsusb see’s it as
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12dl:1f01 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
>
Hi siouxzy
your problem reminds of the difficulties I had after upgrading to 12.2.
Many clever advices didn’t work, but I got the impression that it had to
do with the device being locked. Greyed menu-items for example.
So I simply deactivated PIN-entry (upon plugging the device).
No further workaround needed.
Hope this works for you too.
FYI - Full description of my symptoms in german can be found here:
http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=116680
Thanks for your help Deano,
Checked for USB modeswitch in ‘Get and Remove Software-System settings’ and was listed there under installed software but reinstalled it from disc anyway so…
You should see something like /dev/sr1 (storage device) present. Now type
dmesg|tail gave me this
# dmesg|tail
725.601041] usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
725.715883] usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=1f01
725.715888] usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
725.715891] usb 1-7: Product: HUAWEI HiLink
725.715894] usb 1-7: Manufacturer: HUAWEI
725.717559] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-7:1.0
726.719405] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
726.724622] sr1: scsi-1 drive
726.724805] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
726.724923] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 5
so then wasn’t sure which to eject 