A colleague has 10.04 Netbook distro installed on an ASUS 900 and we are trying to get mobile broadband on the UK 3 network. The dongle is a ZTE MF112. According to various posts on the Net, this should work straight out of the box on Lucid Lynx, provided the right data is used in the Network widget. This is a "composite" device which acts as both a USB memory stick and a dongle, the memory stick bit containing the configuration utilities for Windows and MAC, which autorun on login and then hand over to the dongle side once configuration has been done. On Linux, it starts as a USB memory stick and you have to eject it via Dolphin file manager to allow it to be seen by the Network widget (the "mobile broadband" tab is greyed out otherwise).
To set up a connection requires various bits of data, including the dongle number (we have that from the SIM), a user name and password (all the posts read so far say that these should both be blank) and the network APN (several posts give this as "three.co.uk"). What we don't have is whether the dongle number should start "0..." or "44..." (unanswered posts query this), what setting for the network preference (3G, 2G or "Any"), and whether we need a PIN and/or PUK code.
What we do have is that two successive eject commands are required to get the memory stick bit to stay unmounted, then the network widget finds the dongle on the right USB, and when the dongle registers a mobile signal, attempts are made to connect, but not successfully. Presumably we don't have correct data in the network widget, any suggestions as to what is missing or wrong would be appreciated.
As an aside, the first attempt to fit the dongle resulted in it auto running up to configure as a Windows device, under Wine, which failed because of problems in displaying elements of the Windows config screens (we did not actually get to trying a connection). The ASUS has since been reinstalled (we got the SSD "disk" configuration wrong and quickly ran out of space!), so we deliberately left Wine off for the moment to avoid confusing things. However, there will be a need for Wine, so once we have the dongle running under Linux, how do we stop the autorun from kicking in with Wine, every time the dongle is inserted?
To set up a connection requires various bits of data, including the dongle number (we have that from the SIM), a user name and password (all the posts read so far say that these should both be blank) and the network APN (several posts give this as "three.co.uk"). What we don't have is whether the dongle number should start "0..." or "44..." (unanswered posts query this), what setting for the network preference (3G, 2G or "Any"), and whether we need a PIN and/or PUK code.
What we do have is that two successive eject commands are required to get the memory stick bit to stay unmounted, then the network widget finds the dongle on the right USB, and when the dongle registers a mobile signal, attempts are made to connect, but not successfully. Presumably we don't have correct data in the network widget, any suggestions as to what is missing or wrong would be appreciated.
As an aside, the first attempt to fit the dongle resulted in it auto running up to configure as a Windows device, under Wine, which failed because of problems in displaying elements of the Windows config screens (we did not actually get to trying a connection). The ASUS has since been reinstalled (we got the SSD "disk" configuration wrong and quickly ran out of space!), so we deliberately left Wine off for the moment to avoid confusing things. However, there will be a need for Wine, so once we have the dongle running under Linux, how do we stop the autorun from kicking in with Wine, every time the dongle is inserted?
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