Get Huawei dongle E3531 (tele2.ee) working with Debian 7
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Get Huawei dongle E3531 (tele2.ee) working with Debian 7
Hi!
It may have been due to my ignorance to abridge the code written for other dongles in other threats, but althoughI have tried different ways of getting the dongle working (including usb_modeswitch and udev config files) I have not yet managed it with Debian 7 while it works perfectly well with Win7.
I am looking forward to any advice you have.
Hi!
It may have been due to my ignorance to abridge the code written for other dongles in other threats, but althoughI have tried different ways of getting the dongle working (including usb_modeswitch and udev config files) I have not yet managed it with Debian 7 while it works perfectly well with Win7.
I am looking forward to any advice you have.
It seems to work with other versions of Linux, and there are a couple of possible routes in those threads. Since you don't tell us what you've tried, what the message(s) were, or details, there's not much we can guess at.
root@DeepThought# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2232:1020
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 12d1:15ca Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
root@DeepThought#
root@DeepThought# ls /dev/ttyU*
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory
root@DeepThought#
Code:
root@DeepThought# wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61
--> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory
root@DeepThought#
root@DeepThought# ls /dev/ttyU*
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory
root@DeepThought#
Additionally I tried installing the Backports-Kernel (3.14), but this did not seem to work either, although I did not try everything with it I tried with the stable one.
All this did not change that the dongle was shown as a CD-drive in Nautilus.
Why would you do that? The last post in that thread was from FOUR YEARS AGO. Did you check the threads which have the CURRENT information in them???
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Additionally I tried installing the Backports-Kernel (3.14), but this did not seem to work either, although I did not try everything with it I tried with the stable one.
Right...because again, there are known bugs with the latest versions of Debian/Ubuntu.
This was the one being nearest at my problem, most of the other ones I found did not really bother about getting the dongle recognised as such.
...except for the thousands that come up when putting in your model and Debian 7, which is what you're asking about.
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Does that mean there is no solution or is there already a patch?
If you read the two links that I gave you, you would have seen several possible solutions, both combinations of different modprobe statements, a firmware flash onto the device, and suggestions about network manager. And that was just from the first two links that Google gave me.
thank you for your patience and explaining the same thing three times, thanks to you I eventually got it working.
Not that I want to annoy you with another stupid question you have already answered, but does anyone know how I can make the software used to recharge the prepaid card recognise the dongle (it works with WINE, but does not recognise the dongle as being connected)? Or is there an other way for this with Linux?
tricky.
maybe the software itself provides some hints why it can't do what it needs to do?
there's probably no way to repair this, because it relies on windows and because it's closed source (i guess).
is it possible to reload the card without the software? basically, i guess, it makes a phonecall somewhere and enters some pin?
you can also try wine forums: https://forum.winehq.org/
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