Mobile wireless internet device not recognised

Hi,

I am VERY new to the linux environment, and trying to break my windows dependency.

I have recently signed up for mobile wireless internet, where the service provider supplies you with a little USB wireless modem and a few minor details. It is pretty much plug and play on windows, but I cannot get my openSuse OS to recognise it. I am not even sure I am asking it to look in the right places.

Can someone please help me? An online tutorial or very basic step by step instructions would be great!

Thanks for any and all help.
Kel.

with the device plugged in

open a terminal and type
su
then your root password

now:

lsusb

is the device seen there - then if yes, do

lsusb -v

paste the modem info only here

Hi Omniscient Penquin,

Thanks for your reply. I did as requested and the modem details are:

Bus 007 Device 002: ID 12d1:1001
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x12d1
idProduct 0x1001
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 �������������������
iProduct 2 HUAWEI Mobile
iSerial 1 �������������������
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI
bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip)
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)

I hope this helps you to help me.
Thanks again,
Kellie.

It doesn’t look too good does it. Google around - I did a quich look up

Huawei
the home page, not a very helpful site

Hardware for Linux - HUAWEI Technologies
not very promising

I wouldn’t give up too easily

I’m using an E220 (pc card) device, which effectively appears as a usb serial device. Very similar specs:

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem
/ E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x12d1 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
idProduct 0x1003 E220 HSDPA Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 HUAWEI Technologies
iProduct 2 HUAWEI Mobile
iSerial 0

My device was detected automatically by knetworkmanager (with no actual configuration necessary). As with this thread.

Basically, with kernels later than 2.6.19, the usbstorage and usbserial modules should be capable of supporting this device.

This looks promising. Nice deano!

This is the beauty of the forum.

Hi all,

Thanks for the advice, but I am running KNet… but the device doesn’t plug and play.

I don’t really know anything about kernals and it is frustrating having to re-boot into windows to get on this forum…then of course I can’t see linux and can’t remember names of programs etc…

Any other suggestions? I should have a wireless network up and running at home shortly which will solve all my problems, but in the mean time it would be nice to get this device working.

Thanks.
Kel

What version of opensuse are you running?

I do remember that when I first used my usb modem with suse 10.2, I had to treat it more like a dialup modem. This meant configuring with yast modem tool first. IIRC, I think I had to point it at /dev/ttyUSB0 (which I linked to /dev/modem) and set the dialling number to ‘*99#’ as well. After that, I used KInternet to dial out when required.

This may also be of help to you:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:HUAWEI_E220_Support

Hi,

I use my lovely openSUSE 10.3 on my HP dv8000series. But I have a problem since my express-card HSDPA modem - Bandluxe C100s (once I plug it as USB by external socket using USB), but I stil can’t using it in my openSuse 10.3.

I’ve read several references from UbuntuWiki, but still I can script all commands from it.

Can you tell me how to use this device on my laptop also in my pc using openSuse 10.3 64bit version.

Thank you.