Vodaphone Huawei K3520 wireless broadband driver download for Ubuntu?
 

Hi :)

I'm having real trouble trying to get this device working in Jaunty 9.04. With 8.04 and 8.10 it was fine but since then Vodaphone seem to have deleted their linux drivers off their website!! Shockingly i have also lost the download on one of my drives :(

Can anyone give a list of all the packages and dependencies i will need to get while i'm using this machine so that i can copy everything i need onto cd or usb stick or something.

I also don't quite understand how to make sure i get all the updates that the laptop system will need onto a cd to make deployment easier. At the moment each machine has to separately download all it's own updates and that's beginning to be a bit of a pain, especially when laptops have limited download access and 'on-time' (due to batteries).

Thanks in advance, regards from
Tom :)

PS sorry if this post is doubled, i don't knnow how to make a link to it in another folder in linuxquestions yet, sorry i'm too new :(

PPS the other thread is at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3561559
but hopefully this will be the main thread that people write lots of helpful answers too :)

Hi, I use a vodafone usb hsdpa modem(3G), a hauwei e220.

It uses the "option" usb kernel module and may require the wvdial package to set it up.

I hope this gives you a starting place, I am not familiar with the 'butus.

Or even if your modem is similar.

regards Glenn

I managed to get wvdial and it's dependencies by rebooting into Windows to download and then going back into Ubuntu in order to get a message about some other dependency not being installed. Eventually by bouncing back and forth i managed to get wvdial installed.

I'm not sure what to do next though and the internet connection still isn't happening :(

Thanks for your post there btw, wvdial definitely sees a step in the right direction. I'm not sure about the ""option" usb kernel module"? Any chance of clarifying what i need to download for it? I'm not sure but i think the differences between our modems is slight enough that both can use the same 'drivers' and stuff in linux.

Thanks and regards from Tom :)

Hi, the option module is already there in the kernel, afaik.

Type lsusb to see if the modem is listed.

Type lsmod and scan the list to see if "option" is loaded and what it is being used by.

lsmod | grep option
lsusb | grep E220
If it's there, you may need to reboot to reset your network, (something about domainnames)

or try this first....

service network restart

see how you go.

Also, LQ has a fantastic search function and with over 3 million posts, it's possible that the question has been answered.

Cheers, Glenn

Ahhh, brilliant. I can restart the network by using something like "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" or rebooting. Thanks for lsusb and lsmod, i've not used them before :)

I have posted this question in a few other forums and seem to have built up some useful stuff but i'm still not sure i'll be able to get it working this trip. At least i will be able to get some good feedback though :)

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Hi, you may also need binfmt_misc kernel module.

Not sure why, but it's loaded and in use. On my box.

I set my modem up in a similar fashion to what you are doing, only 18 months ago.

Any how, good luck with it.

Depending on how similar they are, yours and mine, I may be able to help further with the config files.

I only used the vodafone app once, the gui would not appear correctly on this box. I found it useless. And kppp(kde) insisted on a password, where there was none. I have it configured through the Mandriva network settings, then copy the config files back to their respectful directories from a backup.

Cheers, Glenn

|Oh no. I've never used kernel modules. I don't even know where to get them. Is this going to need me to re-compile the kernel?

Probably not ;)

Kernel modules are like "drivers", and, unlike windows, they are usually already waiting on your machine, ready to be used. But sometimes they don't automatically know they should be loaded so they don't work.

Eg: "Hardware xxx works if module yyy is loaded."
I have hardware xxx. So lsmod | grep yyy will tell me if the yyy module is loaded.
If it is not listed, you can (probably) load it with (as root)
modprobe yyy
Then try again, or read what the error messages say, unlike windows, they'll tell you something useful.

You aren't giving us much information. We'd like to know the output of lsusb that refers to your modem, like GlennsPref posted in #4:
What does your modem list as?
Then we will be able to look up what it is and maybe be able to help you to make it work.

Kernel modules? Like Tredegar said.

Please post us some info from your machine.

When posting code, you can paste the text in a code box
[open square bracket] code [close square bracket]
paste here......
[open square bracket] /code [close square bracket] to end section.

quote is used the same way as code. code, I believe leaves the spacing, quote tidies the spacing up.


Oh yeah, The modem is sometimes loaded as a storage device using "usb_storage" module. usually this occurs on first boot of the modem, because M$win downloads the drivers from the device, then switches to serial mode, using "usbserial" module. The modem does this with its own firmware and may become difficult to diagnose because of it.

I have a line in /etc/modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload that loads the correct module for the device at boot. Ubuntu may differ.

Cheers Glenn

Ok, i'm on the boat and using Windows to connect to the internet using the device. I can download some small files but can't spend long on-line because the boat batteries don't store much charge. Here's lsusb and lsmod, i go the whole thing of each because filtering it through grep didn't give me much

I had a look at wvdial.conf and nticed that Username and password don't seem to have been set. Does anyone know how i can find these ou fom the Windows equivalents that are surrently working automatically?

Thanks and regards from
Tom )

I had the same "login" problem.

See what happens if you leave it blank, you probably tried that....

This is where I used my old config files and restore them instead.

Oh, also it's the program that wants the password, not the device, so just put a space in there, or something.

The good part about this is the related packages are installed when trying to setup this way(in Mandriva, anyway).

The files are kept in various places, see my next post about resolv.conf and the rest.....

Hi, usbserial is missing.

If this causes a problem....

Try this....

Unplug the modem from the cable,

type ....
lsmod | grep usbserial

If it (usbserial) is not loaded then...

modprobe usbserial

wait one, replug it(the modem) in.

type lsusb to check it is re-instated,

lsusb | grep E620

lsmod | grep option

and

lsmod | grep usbserial

The name may be different with ubuntu, But the kernel is the kernel, right....

see if that helps.

File needed for modem setup....(Mandriva)

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/ppp/peers/ppp0
/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf
/etc/resolv.conf

Resolv.conf has the dns addresses, resolve will attempt to get these from the modem, in my experience it gets "wins" addresses like 10.11.12.13 instead of ip's that linux recognises, like
In this instance, if I allow the resolv service to run at boot, it will overwrite these addresses with 10.x.x.x wins addresses, The modem will not connect. I don't know how to divert this, so I turn the resolv service off in the service manager.

You should be able to get the correct addresses from your windows setup., also the gateway address, 10.64.64.64, on mine.

a side point, my modem appears as pots, rather than HSDPA/G3 modem. But has no problems.

chat-ppp0
ifcfg-eth0 This helps to redirect the local network, may not be required on your system....
ifcfg-ppp0
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/ppp/peers/ppp0
/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf
OK, after all of that, it may not harm your system to try a few of these, and see the differences.

Bit of "white-hat" HACKING, see how you go.

regards Glenn

you may also need...comgt, but it may be installed already.
Also from M$windows type ipconfig to get info on your modem.

Like gateway, dns servers and dhcp too, maybe.

Hope this helps. Glenn

I found gnome-ppp but couldn't find most of the rest. ipconfig was inspired, it help with ip addresses & stuff but i'm still stuck on vodafone passwords i guess.

Thanks & regards so far from
Tom :)

OK, I had to put in a few letters, sorry I forgot to say.

In fact I don't really need to login to the modem, but the software is a bit quirky, like a 56k modem setup.

I used 4 letters-numbers. it has never asked me to confirm and the modem does not ask for it, it is all stored on the card in the modem, like a mobile phone.