Hsdpa Modem ?, Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem Options

[craigtyson]

No such luck.

It works great on my UBUNTU laptop, but no joy on the Z

C

what distro do you have on your zaurus ?and which kernel ?

SLC-1000 CACKO 1.23 lite, with whatever kernel CACKO 1.23 comes with.

C

[jpmatrix]

No such luck.

It works great on my UBUNTU laptop, but no joy on the Z

C

what distro do you have on your zaurus ?and which kernel ?

SLC-1000 CACKO 1.23 lite, with whatever kernel CACKO 1.23 comes with.

C

oh i see...
could you try on a "modern" distro with a modern kernel, like angstrom or debian eabi ? please
there's a good chance that it works see that it is supposed to on kernels > 2.6.19...

[Wildherb]

No such luck.

It works great on my UBUNTU laptop, but no joy on the Z

C

Can you please document what you've tried in terms of physical cables and settings within Cacko?

I've just acquired a Huawei modem on the 3 network and it works right out of the box with my new Asus eeePC (great device but no plans to ditch the Z just yet!). It would be great to get it working on my 3100 as the modem will just squeeze into the top of my Piel Frama Z case! I'm currently back on Cacko after flirting with BSD and OZ. Angstrom was too bleeding-edge last time I looked but migth be prepared to give it another go if I can get some time.

[craigtyson]

Cable wise used the cable that came with my C1000 from Trisoft. I dont seem to be able to create a USB serial port. but I dont seem to be able to get a USB mouse working either so I might have cocked up my USB support (I have installed all the USB drivers from the CACKO feed though)

[speculatrix]

Cable wise used the cable that came with my C1000 from Trisoft. I dont seem to be able to create a USB serial port. but I dont seem to be able to get a USB mouse working either so I might have cocked up my USB support (I have installed all the USB drivers from the CACKO feed though)

what do "dmesg | tail -100" and "tail -100 /var/log/messages" say

[laan]

Cable wise used the cable that came with my C1000 from Trisoft. I dont seem to be able to create a USB serial port. but I dont seem to be able to get a USB mouse working either so I might have cocked up my USB support (I have installed all the USB drivers from the CACKO feed though)

what do "dmesg | tail -100" and "tail -100 /var/log/messages" say

I am on eabi debian, without powered hub the huawei turns on but as it was said it seems not to get enough power and is not correctly detected, with a powered usb hub it is correctly detected, I will keep you informed if I get it working.

[laan]

ok after some problems with usb being detected as scsi cdrom it's working with wvdial perfectly

now i will try to make the free vodafone applet to work:

https://forge.vodafonebetavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/

[jpmatrix]

ok after some problems with usb being detected as scsi cdrom it's working with wvdial perfectly

now i will try to make the free vodafone applet to work:

https://forge.vodafonebetavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/

whow! that's a terrible news for me ! i think i'll buy one today !
thank you for reporting back !

by the way where did you buy yours ? i'd need one unsimlocked to work with french Orange provider

[laan]

whow! that's a terrible news for me ! i think i'll buy one today !
thank you for reporting back !

by the way where did you buy yours ? i'd need one unsimlocked to work with french Orange provider

vodafone applet is too slow to load, not worthy imho.

Mine is from vodafone, have been using on laptop for a while but for sure ebay is your friend on it.

[Wildherb]

Cable wise used the cable that came with my C1000 from Trisoft. I dont seem to be able to create a USB serial port. but I dont seem to be able to get a USB mouse working either so I might have cocked up my USB support (I have installed all the USB drivers from the CACKO feed though)

what do "dmesg | tail -100" and "tail -100 /var/log/messages" say

I am on eabi debian, without powered hub the huawei turns on but as it was said it seems not to get enough power and is not correctly detected, with a powered usb hub it is correctly detected, I will keep you informed if I get it working.

cool! what cables are you using? The E220 modem has a USB mini-B socket and I guess you need the Z to be in USB host mode, hence a USB mini-A to mini-B is what is needed.

[laan]

Cable wise used the cable that came with my C1000 from Trisoft. I dont seem to be able to create a USB serial port. but I dont seem to be able to get a USB mouse working either so I might have cocked up my USB support (I have installed all the USB drivers from the CACKO feed though)

what do "dmesg | tail -100" and "tail -100 /var/log/messages" say

I am on eabi debian, without powered hub the huawei turns on but as it was said it seems not to get enough power and is not correctly detected, with a powered usb hub it is correctly detected, I will keep you informed if I get it working.

cool! what cables are you using? The E220 modem has a USB mini-B socket and I guess you need the Z to be in USB host mode, hence a USB mini-A to mini-B is what is needed.

I use host cable to connect to powered HUB and connect modem to HUB, needing a powered HUB ties you to a power source if you don't have a battery powered HUB (each day harder to find )

[speculatrix]

unfortunately we've now got an on-call scheme at work, but it does mean we have a 3G modem - it's the Vodafone-UK branded Huawei thumb-stick one:
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/images/news...afone_modem.jpg
which is the Huawei E172.

when I insert into laptop ... I see this in lsusb- evidently the device tables don't know much about it...
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12d1:1003

I get this in /var/log/messages:
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: new device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=1003
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technologies
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: option 1-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Mar 15 14:24:59 merton kernel: usb 1-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0

however, I cannot make it work, using minicom or pppd dialler. odd. anyway, I've only had it a a few hours so when I've made some progress I can then try using zaurus and a powered hub! I will also try putting the SIM into my audiovox CF gprs card too

[laan]

which is your script? I usually need to remove PIN from cards on Linux, hope it helps

[speculatrix]

This is the script I am trying to use:

CODE

TIMEOUT        5
ECHO        ON
ABORT        '\nBUSY\r'
ABORT        '\nERROR\r'
ABORT        '\nNO ANSWER\r'
ABORT        '\nNO CARRIER\r'
ABORT        '\nNO DIALTONE\r'
ABORT        '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'
REPORT        CONNECT
TIMEOUT        60
SAY        'Sending AT'
''        '\r\r'
''        AT
SAY        'Sending ATZ'
OK        ATZ
SAY        'Sending ATE1'
OK        'ATE1'
SAY        'Sending AT&F'
OK        'AT&F'
SAY        'Sending ATQ0...'
OK        'OK ATQ0V1E1S0=0&C1&D2'
SAY        'Checking if PIN needed'
OK        'AT+CPIN?'
SAY        'Requesting for networks'
OK        'AT+COPS?'
SAY        'Requesting signal strength'
OK        'AT+CSQ'
SAY        'Specifying vodafone APN'
OK        'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"'
SAY        'Changing timeout to 30'
TIMEOUT        30
SAY        'Requesting connection'
OK        'ATD*99***1#'

here's the /etc/ppp/vodafone-usb file

CODE

/dev/ttyUSB0
debug
debug
nodetach
230400
noipdefault
usepeerdns
defaultroute
persist
noauth
user        Anyname
password    Anypassword
connect        '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-vodafone'

siorry for the bad spacing, tab char has been stripped

[speculatrix]

I found a couple of websites about the huawei e172 and its brethren:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Huawei/E220

http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/

a colleague has tried the e172 in his ubuntu laptop and it recognised it as four devices - one USB cdrom, and three tty/serial devices - ttyUSB{0,1,2}. he was able to mount the usb cdrom and see the windows install files, not sure he's got the modem side to work.