Will Huawei K3765 USB dongle stick work with Opensuse 11.2

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Hi,

Will Huawei K3765 USB broadband dongle stick work with Opensuse 11.2?

And will the vodafone dongle stick software work under wine to run this device?

Many thanks:)

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You can try it out anyway, but no need to use the Windo$ software supplied with the stick.

Assuming you are using KDE4:
Just insert the stick in and after 10-20 seconds, see if you are getting a notification in the knetwormanager. If everything is recognized properly, you should see a “Create Network Connection” option with the icon of a mobile phone in the knetworkmanager option. Click that and configure it.

Also, you can monitor what is happening when the device is inserted by watching the system messages:

su
tail -f /var/log/messages
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Thanks syampillai,

That’s sounds fine. I’ll go ahead and get it as it’s a good deal on offer and I’m confident it’ll work somehow.

Cheers:)

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Actually, if you carry your laptop, you can check it before purchasing.

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i got it working in openSUSE 11.1 plug and play. (after configuring the networksettings like APN etc of course…)

In openSUSE 11.2 it’s no longer working… but it’s networkmanager to blame. Everything works fine with umtsmon. networkmanager can’t seem to make a connection, no matter what i’m trying. I’ve read that this bug has been closed as repaired, but i’m still waiting for the fixed version to come available in the openSUSE repo’s.

Also… vodafone software does run on linux. The vodafone mobile connect is available for Linux. I installed it once… works flawlessly. enter the stick, choose connection and enter you APN and pasword.
Just one silly thing… it wrote some bad data to some config files wich made my other network connections (LAN and WLAN) unusable.
So be aware if using VMC, make sure you know how to edit your resolv.conf etc… to get your original conifg back if something might get wrong like here.

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Nice to hear that it works.

Yea, KNM still has some issues with properly reading/using the configuration data. I tried a USB 3G Broadband connection by configuring information such as Dialing Number, APN etc. in KNM and it was able to connect. Only problem was that it was not updating /etc/resolv.conf when connected even though it received DNS entries. So, I had to manually edit the /etc/resolv.conf and such things can not be left to the end-users anyway.

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I used umtsmon before when I was on suse 11.1. Now I no longer have mobile broadband and never use it since. But I did manage to solve the no /etc/resolv.conf issue by following seife’s blog. Read the comments.

Using dialup with 11.1 if NetworkManager does not handle your device « seife’s assorted rants

Do not know if this will work with suse 11.2 but one can try.

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KNetworkManager is much better in oS11.2 but still this workaround is a good solution.

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There is a new KNetworkManager release that addresses this problem of not updating /etc/resolv.conf.

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I think I’ve applied the new Knetwork manager update so should the stick be recognised when I plug it in or do I have to set it up manually. If I do, how do I do this?

The other thing is, has anyone got VMC to work in 11.2. I’ve found it asks for user to be added to dialup group but its not availble.

Cheers:)

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I think I’ve applied the new Knetwork manager update so should the stick be recognised when I plug it in or do I have to set it up manually. If I do, how do I do this?

The other thing is, has anyone got VMC to work in 11.2. I’ve found it asks for user to be added to dialup group but its not availble.

Cheers:)

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I think I’ve applied the new Knetwork manager update so should the stick be recognised when I plug it in or do I have to set it up manually. If I do, how do I do this?

The other thing is, has anyone got VMC to work in 11.2. I’ve found it asks for user to be added to dialup group but its not availble.

Cheers:)

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Sorry for repeated posts my internet connection was playing up.