Help me find the 3G Vodafone driver

eos10 · 08-30-2009, 10:13 AM

I join the 3G plan with vodafane mobile Model : HUA WAI K315 HSPDA USB Modem. There is no driver to support the ASUS PC701 Linux version. Would you help me to find the driver and let it go to internet with 3G modem?
Thx a lot!!!

EvelynStar · 09-01-2009, 03:42 PM

Try looking for Betavine this works well with some mobile broadband dongles. http://www.betavine.net
It is easier if it is monthly contract, pay as you go need to be set up first in windows to get password details
which are sent as text message to modem at the start, as yet not readable using betavine at my last try.

Good luck. much trial and error each set up seems to be different.

Tony Littlejohn · 09-03-2009, 05:49 AM

I found some very useful information on setting up a LG Viewty with an Asus 701 (Xandros) at this site

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=60301

abh · 09-05-2009, 04:51 AM

You shouldn't need to download any drivers.

Vodafone USB modems access the internet using ppp (Point to Point
Protocol), the same as old dialup modems.

First configure your connection using any tool that can configure a dialup
connection, such as pppconfig or wvdial, or even kppp. Where it asks you
what device the modem is interfaced to, type in /dev/ttyUSB0. You can get
the phone number by asking the folks at vodafone, or reading it from a
windows machine.

Next, make yourself root, and type:

# modprobe usbserial

That loads the driver you're after.

Now plug in the modem, and type:

# pon (if you used pppconfig)
# wvdial (if you used wvdial)

or click on connect under kppp, or the gnome equivalent.

Let me know if this works for you.

Andrew

cabio · 05-06-2010, 10:15 AM

Hi abh,

I have this usb key from Vodafone, newer model (i guess), but still similar.

The model(if relevant) is k3765, well the thing is, i tried if on ubuntu 10.04, trying to set it up on pppconfig, which looks very straight forward...

After setting it up as suggested, /dev/ttyUSB0 (cero), i found some issues, the first:

At the point of doing pon i did it without the connection name set up before...

then i realiced and changed it to chatarra, this was the name i configured at pppconfig, but another error mesage came out, cannot find /dev/ttyUSB0

Checked /dev/ and there is no ttyUSB0

At the point of doing "modprobe usbserial" no output was presented in terminal... *note

I heard of a different way of doing it (under investigation) which is installing windows drivers for ubuntu... I will keep you uptodate on this if it works.

That is it... talk to you soon :P

Karl Godt · 05-15-2010, 05:14 AM

Quote:

HUA WAI K315 HSPDA USB Modem

Mine is HUAWEI K3715 ?

KERNEL 2.6.+ should be needed as I have read it somewhere .

Drivers must evtl. be loaded after Desktop start :

Code:

modprobe usbserial
modprobe option

X-UBUNTU 9.10 and 10.04 live CD have got nm-applet and nm-connection-editor which I prefer most

Unfortunally the sudo is not my theme at all and no Thunar-volman at Debian Xfce liveCD 5.0.4(usbserial and option:yes<>wvdial and so on:no); no find at Thunar, no mount of HD at X-Ubuntu ...

Therefore McPub (Macpup-4.3.1) became my favorite. Under 200 MB download.

pupdial-output:

Code:

--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.vodafone.de","",0,0
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.vodafone.de","",0,0
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.vodafone.de"
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.vodafone.de"
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATX1DT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATX1DT*99#
CONNECT 7200000
--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Sun May  9 11:41:11 2010
--> pid of pppd: 8570

top output:

Code:

Mem: 314560K used, 4848K free, 0K shrd, 21972K buff, 77236K cached
CPU:   9% usr   8% sys   4% nic  77% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 0.61 0.82 1.40 2/83 19643
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %MEM CPU %CPU COMMAND
30528 30518 root     S N   165m  53%   0   6% gxine 
 3276  3237 root     S    30216   9%   0   5% /usr/bin/enlightenment 
 8841  3276 root     S N   189m  61%   0   3% /usr/lib/opera/10.10/opera 
10302  8841 root     S N  96788  30%   0   1% /usr/lib/opera/10.10//operapluginw
 3241  3237 root     S <  59188  19%   0   1% X :0 -mode 0x0117 -shadow -mouse /
 8561  4859 root     S N  14280   4%   0   1% Xdialog --center --wmclass pupdial
 8694  8693 root     S N   1800   1%   0   1% htop 
19624 19542 root     R N   2036   1%   0   0% top 
16924 16922 root     S N  18852   6%   0   0% gtkdialog2 --stdin 
 7235  3276 root     S N  15048   5%   0   0% zmixer 
 3354  3276 root     S    11292   4%   0   0% absvolume -bg #000000 
 8560  4859 root     S N   4956   2%   0   0% wvdial isp1 isp1apn wireless 
 3207     1 root     S     4552   1%   0   0% /usr/sbin/cupsd 
 3647  3276 root     S N   4360   1%   0   0% /usr/lib/enlightenment/utils/enlig
 3642  3276 root     S N   3764   1%   0   0% /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/tem
15699  3276 root     S N   3508   1%   0   0% /bin/sh /usr/sbin/pupscan 
16922 15699 root     S N   3508   1%   0   0% /bin/sh /usr/sbin/pupscan 
14551 14550 root     S N   2832   1%   0   0% bash 
19542 19541 root     S N   2828   1%   0   0% bash 
 4859  3276 root     S N   2804   1%   0   0% /bin/bash /usr/sbin/pupdial

unfortunately no lsusb but pupscan:

Code:

Manufacturer=HUAWEI Technology
Product=HUAWEI Mobile
VendorID=12d1  ProductID=1001  KERNEL-MODULE=(none)

most lsusb or lshal output I had was like 'Huawei e620 Modem'

last but not least:
/boot/grub/menu.lst:

Code:

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'.  Sun May  9 00:00:55 2010
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.31082'.  You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.31082 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (root (hd0,0)on /dev/sda1)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal /* originally, works though hd<>sd */
  
  title Linux (on /dev/hda1)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
  
  title Linux (on /dev/sda1)
  root (sd0,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal
  
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,0)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda1)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title -     For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title -     For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)

abh · 05-15-2010, 05:52 AM

Hi Cabio,

No output from modprobe means usbserial was loaded ok. You can check with lsmod.

The instructions I wrote a while ago worked for Huawei E220. But now I have a K3715 and sometimes /dev/ttyUSB0 is not created when the modem is plugged in while Linux is running. But it is always created when the vodem is already plugged in when I startup. So try that.

Also, I've put

usbserial

in my /etc/modules file, just like that on a line by itself. So you no longer have to load the module manually.

I hope this works for your model.