[clug] Vodafone's HSDPA USB modem

[Michael Cohen]

Im using that one. Recently I upgraded to gutsy and successfully used
it. It should technically work out of the box but the device confuses
the linux kernel because it looks like a cdrom first, the kernel picks
it up as a usb cdrom and forgets to use the usbserial driver on it.

The solution seems to be to move the sg.ko, sr_mod.ko out of the way,
rmmod them, then plug the device in
then the usb serial will finally recognise it and then its just a wuvdial away.

Unfortunately you cant use your cdrom when its in as you need to
reinsert those modules to use the cdrom and when you do they steal the
device off the usb serial driver.

I did have some hard locks with the usb serial driver in kernels circa
2.6.20 and am using 2.6.18 on my main firewall/router instead. There
was some dodginess in usbserial which may have been fixed since.

Michael.

On Jan 8, 2008 3:21 PM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 4:10 PM, Tim Potter <tpot at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of Vodafone, has anyone been using Vodafone's HSDPA USB modem
> > for wireless broadband?  According to google, it's a HUAWEI E220 and you
> > can get it working under Linux[1], but I was wondering if anyone had
> > done it before signing up for a 24-month contract.  (-:
>
> This E220 is the same modem that Optus use, so if you can't find
> someone who's done it with Vodafone, look for an Optus customer.
>
> cheers,
> Dale
> (I got one yesterday but haven't tried to make it go under Linux yet)
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