Bigpond USB wireless modem

[Leslie Gossner]

Melissa Draper wrote:
> Paul Gear wrote:
>   
>> carlj wrote:
>>     
>>> Gentelmen,
>>>       
>
> I'm not even male, so I hope this doesn't preclude me from answering, 
> even if belatedly.
>
>   
>>> New to all of this, however I'm surprise how easy it was to install
>>> and see verything working on my labtop, minus my bigpond USB wireless
>>> modem.
>>>
>>> New to this, I'm totally lost in how to try to sort out this issure.
>>> Have read the documation and some of your post here on this forum,
>>> however that have not help in any way.
>>>
>>> When i'm looking in the Network Manager there is no wireless
>>> connection! that's how far I'm.
>>>
>>> Hope someone could lead me in the right direction.
>>>       
>> After you've modprobed the module, the device is usable as a *dialup
>> modem*, not a wirless connection.  You must use the modem device
>> /dev/ttyUSB1 and set up a dialup connection to the phone number *99#
>>
>> You do this through manual configuration in the network manager.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>     
>
> Many usb/pcmcia wireless broadband modems benefit from the application 
> developed by the Spanish branch of Vodafone [0]. It is open source and 
> works for any carrier.
>
> The application is useful as it can monitor usage, and make it easy to 
> restrict yourself to 3g only, so you don't get nasty GPRS surprises. 
> Some functions may not work here in aus, but it's great for connection 
> management.
>
> The application is still in development, so can require a little 
> prodding and/or a reboot or two. You will need to download the 'all' 
> version of the .run file, and run it as root. If you get errors about 
> permissions, try rebooting, if that doesnt work, chmod the particular 
> files it complains about to allow world read/write as well, then reboot 
> again. I set the latest version of it up on my ubuntufied eeepc for my 
> Soul mobile broadband last night, which uses a huawei e220 [1] modem.
>
> [0] https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220
>
>   
Thanks for that im still trying to get my 3 mobile working on Ubuntu.  
This may do it.  My main problem is being outside a 3g area so i need to 
go to work and test then return home to get anything off the net to try 
again.  If it works i will yell.  Mines a Huawei_E169G.
Leslie