How to "disable zero CD" in order to get my USB mobile internet dongle working?

[Tony Pursell]

On 6 Jun 2010 at 23:11, Bas Roufs wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com>
> Date: 2010/6/4
> Subject: How to "disable zero CD" in order to get my USB mobile
> internet dongle working?
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
> Hello Everybody
> 
> Ever since about 2 weeks I am trying to get a mobile internet dongle
> working with Linux.So far all the attempts get stuck at the same
> point. my difficulty to "disable zero CD": to get rid of a "virtual CD
> Rom" which prevents my dongle from properly functioning. So far, I
> have tried two packages meant to help in this context:
> usb modeswitch (from the regular repository)
> ozerocdoff (from pharscape.org)
> 
> Wether I try KPPP, WVDIAL or KNetworkmanager: still the dongle is
> being mounted as a CD Rom each time I insert him in it. Also each
> restart together with the dongle ends up in this "zero CD"result. Does
> anybody have a clue how to permanently reset the laptop in such a way
> that the dongle will be automatically correctly recognised and dealt
> with?
> 
> BASIC INFO
> OS: dual boot Kubuntu Lucid and Win7.
> Dongle: HUAEI E1820.
> Netbook/ laptop: Eee PC 1001HA, 250GB HD, 1GB RAM.
> Test result: at the Windows partition, the dongle works
> automatigically, at the Linux partition still not.
> 
> Thanks, respectfully yours,
> 
> Bas.

First of all, just tell me to get lost if what I am going to say has been 
said before, because I havn't really been following this thread.  

I have used my wife's USB mobile internet dongle (its a Huawei 
K3565) with no trouble at all. Yes, it does show up as a storage 
device, because it has a micro SD storage card in it, mounted at 
/media/VMC LITE 9.3.5.11690).  But that has nothing to do with its 
internet function in Ubuntu.  I think it has Windows software on it.

The internet function is enabled through the Network applet.  Under 
Lucid (Ubuntu, not Kubuntu) it just tells me in the list of possible 
connections that there is a 'New Mobile Broadband (GSM) 
connection...'  I click on that and it takes me to a dialog where I select 
Country (Britain(UK) in this list - why they cannot standardise on 
United Kingdom, I will never know), then my Provider (Vodaphone) 
then my (wife's) Billing Plan (TopUp and Go).  Once I confirm all that 
- it works!

So, what doesn't work for you?  One thing you don't tell us in your 
BASIC INFO is details of your mobile provider.

Tony