Support USB modem HUAWEI?

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What include support a driver for USB modem Huawei E219 (HSDPA/UMTS) and Huawei EC226 (3G/EVDO)?

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a google search reveals

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G

that it

Huawei E219 (HSDPA)
USB
works out of the box
DiGi (Malaysia)
vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003
tested with Ubuntu 9.04 and NetworkManager 0.7

Ubuntu is gnome and network manager; OpenSuse 11.2 is now KDE for those that opt for that

but it should work out of the box: I think the product ID is identical to the older E169 Huawei

similarly from the above link

Huawei EC226 (EVDO Rev-A)
USB
Works
CAT Telecom Thailand
vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1001

I think the product ID is that for the older E220 that has always worked very well (for me)

Ubuntu is the bigger distro so more sources there

  1. which country are you in?
  2. which provider are you looking at?

these two devices seem Malaysia and Thailand ?

I haven’t installed 11.2 onto a netbook, but trying the Gnome version as a liveCD I was impressed how it just went ahead and autoconfigured; (and that was the ZTE modem, the Vodafone K3565-Z) so I would hope with what you propose, it will equally autoconfigure; I found it created an entry for me in NetworkManager and all I had to do was click to connect: how hard is that?

so if you have a laptop, you can create a liveCD on a USB stick and boot it and see, if the shop will let you try either of these modems as a demo;