Optus Wireless

[Leslie Gossner]

Dave Hall wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 18:38 +1000, Jetjoint wrote:
>   
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> First post here.
>> Does anyone use an Optus Wireless Broadband USB Modem on Ubuntu? I am 
>> looking at getting one and just wondering how easy it is to set up? Any 
>> links to pages that might help?
>>     
>
> If it is the Huawei E220, I am using a VF branded version and it works
> great.  Avoid the E169 (as shipped by 3 and others?) it needs some hacks
> to udev to make it work properly.
>
> If you want to use the E220 with Network Manager you need to hack a
> couple of config files, then it works well.  Let me know if you need the
> files.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
>
>   

This week i purchased an E169 from 3 as part of a mobile broadband 
package.  Im yet to get it up and running but a lsusb shows the modem 
straight away (lists as an E620) i just cant seem to convince Kubuntu to 
use the thing.  Unlike other i havent had the Mass storage device 
showing so i guess i need to set up some sort of dialer.  Im going to 
look into it tonight but after testing on my XP partition its a real dog 
to get running under XP with the device changing modes every 5 seconds 
for a good minute or two before it can actually connect to the 
internet.  I dont think these devices were real well designed but at 
least now they dont play up under Linux and go straight to modem mode.
Any hint on how to use the detected modem to connect to the net will be 
appreciated for me and im sure others.  Im gonna have a hack at it 
myself anyway and ill post how hard or simple it was to get working for 
others using the list.

Thanks
Leslie Gossner