refer to other guides to know how to do specific tasks, like setting up and compiling a kernel, installing packages, etc. Once it works for root you can always switch back to your normal user.

I suppose that in Linux you're logged in as 'root'.

I say this because it might be that the proprietary drivers have to do something 'special' during the first connection to activate your subscription.

You already installed the USB modem in a Windows PC and checked that everything is working and that the connection was working.

The USB modem has a slot where I have to insert my prepaid card - I think it will therefore accept as well other SIM cards when I am abroad or if I just change provider - but I didn't try this out yet. Once the modem works the data transfer rate is not bad - I was downloading with 174KB/s, which I think is the maximum I can reach here. The subscription type is the 'NATEL(R) data easy' of Swisscom, which is a prepaid one. I originally wanted to get a 'E180v' (as by reading some blogs I got the impression that it was better supported in Linux) but unluckily it wasn't available anymore for the kind of subscription I wanted to have. Ralf from Germany sent me some remarks/notes => I have posted them at the bottom.Īs I mention below, I bought a 'Huawei E1762' USB modem, but I am actually not 100% sure if the 'E1762' is really correct.

This device now works out of the box when using Ubuntu 11.10 or Fedora 16 (I did not test other distributions). In the end I tried out quite many ways to make it work, and what I describe here is the one that worked the best. Installing a USB modem, especially the Huawei E1762 in Gentoo Linux, was quite difficult - especially for me as so far I never fiddled around with 'ppp' or AT-commands in Linux. I made configurations for the APN, but no change whatsoever.How to install a Huawei E1762 USB/GSM modem on Gentoo Unfortunately, the e3131 modem does not perform. RUN+='/lib/udev/modem-modeswitch -vendor 0x$attr -t option-zerocd” I was able to test this on 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I believe this should also work on 9.10 Karmic Koala. Anyway, here’s how to do it on Ubuntu Linux.

His solution also requires creating a new configuration file but the end result enables your machine to automatically switch the mode of your 3G Modem from USB Storage to USB Modem. Today, I discovered a less tedious solution from here. After that, I will have to run “sudo usb_modeswitch” every time I want to use the modem.

Aside from the need to install the usb_modeswitch package, it also requires me to edit /etc/usb_nf to support that particular device. I used to manually change the mode of the Huawei E1550 USB 3G Modem from Sun whenever I want to use it under Linux.

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