Comments on: Huawei E1550 on Ubuntu

By: suki

suki — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:34:07 +0000

I’m using 10.04 and your instruction helped me. thanks for that. However, my sony vault no longer mount. I have to remove the rule file before I can use it again.

so basically it’s either the e1550 or my usb stick. is there anyway to use both of them simultaneously? or at least something that will not require me to remove/rename the file?

thanks a ton!

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By: Dougie

Dougie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:48:49 +0000

Ubuntu 10.04 has better support out the box, if the vendor strings are different then I imagine E1552 is compatible.

I have been completely out of the loop with 10.04 and probably with 10.10 too so there is also the possibility that there have been changes I don’t know about.

By: jhuniepi

jhuniepi — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:26:27 +0000

Hello, I tried this and it worked on my Ubuntu 10.04 and Huawei E1552. Does this settings really compatible with E1552? I wonder because when I see the product id of E1553, it is 1001 and not 1446.

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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:23:33 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:28:25 +0000

Thanks that worked a treat on Lucid Lynx. However there was no need to install udev-extras as this is no longer available, instead udev is provided out of the box and is all that is needed to implement your fix.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:27:09 +0000

Thank you. I have just tried this on Lucid Lynx and your fix worked a treat. However it is worth noting that I did not need to install the udev-extras as it seems the functionality required is now provided under the udev package which was installed by default. Thanks.

By: Eduard

Eduard — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:22:17 +0000

Well, this provider isn’t included in the list. They are still working on it, so it’s quite new. It’s been able in my country for a few months only. I can find only Orange and Vodafone for Romania, there is no other prov. I’ll try setting it up in Kubuntu or Xubuntu. I’m really curious to see if it’s working or not.

There is a Windows driver included on the stick, which installs “Mobile Partner”. There I had to set up a profile for this connection, and every time I try to connect, i’ll have to enable it. These are the settings from the Windows utility:
- IP Settings: Dynamic
- Authentication Protocol Settings: CHAP (this one is selected, the other one would be PAP, but I didn’t change this, so CHAP would be the default one)
- DNS Settings: Dynamic
- WINS Settings: Dynamic (i don’t know what this one is??)
- APN: Dynamic
- Authentication:
-Access Number: *99#
-username: blank
-password: blank

I’d really appreciate if someone could help me set up this connection. In network manager there are very few settings compared to “Mobile Partner”.

I don’t know, but maybe it has to do something with the fact, that Ubuntu Karmic mounts the stick as a removable drive. I also overrode those settings mentioned in the tutorial, namely to prevent Ubuntu mounting it when connected, and it doesn’t appear anymore.

By: Dougie

Dougie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:18:37 +0000

It sounds that the configuration is not correct in NM for that provider – I’m out of the country at the moment though so I can only really suggest filing a bug with NetworkManager’s team:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/network-manager

By: Eduard

Eduard — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:20:49 +0000

Hi, I tried to install my Huawei E1550 3G/HDSPA modem using thius tutorial. After all, Network Mnagaer does recognize my device, but I cannot make it connect to the 3G network (DiGi.MOBIL – Romania). On Windows XP it’s working quite well. Do I have to make some additional settings? On XP I had to enter the APN phone number, which is *99# for Digi Mobil, and that was all, there is no Billing Plan associated as this is a service with no data-traffic limit.

I’m running Karmic Koala, and also couldn’t install udev-extras, I think it’s not available anymore. I’m also using PPPoE connection (from the same provider), which had to be configured with “pppeconf” due to a bug in Network Manager, which hasn’t been solved yet.

It appears a notification any time I try to connect, saying that “GSM network – Disconnected”

Please help someone!!