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Opensuse 12.3

Hello everyone! I have an mobile internet stick that I used to work with in Windows. I d’like to know if there is a way for me to still using it in Opensuse 12.3. In windows I only needed to plug it in the usb port and use the wind mobile software interface to connect to internet.

Thanks.

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The best place to start is to plug the device and provide us with the chipset details using this terminal command:

lsusb

Report the output here, and please wrap within

....[/CO..] tags. Many of these are 'dual-mode' devices which are identified as CD-ROM drives, and need to be switched into the serial modem mode using a utility such as usb_modeswitch. You may get some useful kernel message output from

dmesg|tail



Have you tries configuring via the network manager yet?
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Thanks deano_ferrari!

here is the information that I have:

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 015: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad]
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5986:02d2 Acer, Inc

dmesg|tail


 5404.429327] scsi 12:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage     2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
 5404.430094] scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HUAWEI   TF CARD Storage       PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
 5404.430513] sd 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
 5404.432745] sr1: scsi-1 drive
 5404.432934] sr 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
 5404.432998] sr 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
 5404.433435] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
 5419.953967] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
 5429.897264] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynced.
 5540.238502] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
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Well done. The output confirms that your 3G device is working in ‘storage’ mode. It may be that usb_modeswitch needs to be upgraded to handle this device, (or you don’t yet have it installed). Please confirm that you have it installed with

rpm -qa|grep modeswitch

If an upgraded is required, go to

software.opensuse.org:

then select ‘Show other versions’ >> ‘Show unstable packages’

I note that home:Akoellh offers version 2.01, so maybe that is required. You may need to research this further yourself

Draisberghof - Software - USB_ModeSwitch

See how that goes and report back.

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It may also be worthwhile enabling usb_modeswitch logging as described here:

Draisberghof - Software - USB_ModeSwitch

Then we might know more definitively about what is occurring with your device. (For example, the serial driver may need to be loaded manually for this particular chipset.)

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Thanks again “Deano_ferrari”

For the moments I have this result

rpm


usb_modeswitch-data-1.2.5-2.1.1.noarch
usb_modeswitch-1.2.5-2.1.1.x86_64

I’ll read the post you linked me to upgrade it

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Hi guinslym

I wonder if your device is already ‘switched’, and it is just a matter of waiting until the device initialises. Anyway, you could could verify this by waiting with a terminal window open running

sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

If all is well, and this behaves like a traditional ‘usb serial’ device, then /dev/ttyUSB* should appear.

This can be verified with

ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*

If you have the ‘usbutils’ package installed, there is a useful ‘usb-devices’ utility which can report any loaded drivers associated with your device

usb-devices

You’d just search for the block of output pertaining to your 3G device. For reference, my laptops in-built device gets reported like this

T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  5 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=03f0 ProdID=1e1d Rev=00.02
S:  Manufacturer=HP
S:  Product=HP hs2300 HSDPA Broadband Wireless Module
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 7 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=sierra

FWIW, here’s an archlinux thread discussing a device with the same chipset as yours. No resolution as such, but it might help shed some light on a possible solution…