I recently bought a Huawei E176 from Germany (through eBay) because it has two interesting features that ordinary USB HSDPA modems don’t have:
- the support for an external clip antenna;
- a Micro SD Card slot.
It’s branded T-Mobile but it works with my operator and I suppose it works with yours as well. :)
It immediately worked with the graphical tool Ubuntu provides for wired/wireless/dialup networks: unfortunately, when I installed the driver shipped with it, it stopped working properly. Of course I was still able to talk with it using pppd (the modem is reachable at /dev/ttyUSB0) as I previously described.
I hope to have enough free time to try the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux and its howto.
Last update: 2009-08-07
I hope you can give me some advice: I have got a Huawei E176 mdem too and I have installed Ubuntu in my desktop but it does not run setup.exe, although I presume my version of Ubuntu is an old fashionone may be something I can do
setup.exe won’t run on Ubuntu (and GNU/Linux in general): it is an executable file compiled for Microsoft Windows OSes.
Sorry, I forgot to thank you in advance.
I have Kubuntu 9.10, and it didn’t work out of the box. I installed the wicd which is default network manager for Ubuntu, but still it does not work. Could u describe, which packages, or what else should I do(the script for K800i, also didn’t solve the problem). Maybe there are some operator specific data…
When I wrote this post, I was using 9.04; anyhow, it already works on 9.10… I simply run (as root) my
tim_umts_usb script(on/dev/ttyUSB0) which calls the AT sequence scripttim: yes, my scripttimhas specific operator data but they should be easy to change – I’m talking about the two lines starting with “OK”.