[SOLVED] Huawei usb-modem connecting but no internet ?

[kdeuser]

Hello,

My Huawei 4g usb-modem was fine 24 hrs ago and now no internet.

The Hi-Link page , which is the official Huawei modem page is saying that i am connected.

I try to navigate but the ( i am working sign ) just keeps on circling.

The page tries to load but can not .

I do not understand what is happening here.

My sim card is ok , take it out the dongle and into mobile phone to make a call - no problems there....

What i did to get the dongle to work initially was :

- Install usb modeswitch :

sudo apt-get -y install usb-modeswitch

- Turn the dongle from being identified from being a card reader to a modem with :

sudo usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 1f01 -M '5553424312345678000000000000001106200000010100010 0000000000000'

- Retrieve an IP address from the modem :

sudo dhclient -v eth2

- Confirm the default gateway points to the modem :

sudo ip route show | grep default

- Make sure /etc/resolv.conf contains a valid nameserver if you can’t resolve domain names :

Not sure on this one !

- Switch the Huawei into a modem at boot time, create /etc/udev/rules.d/70-usb-modeswitch.rules and insert this line:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="12d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1f01", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 1f01 -M '5553424312345678000000000000001106200000010100010 0000000000000'"

- Finally, automatically add a valid nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf when eth2 comes up, adding these lines to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:

interface "eth1" {
prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
dhcp6.name-servers, dhcp6.domain-search,
netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers,
dhcp6.fqdn, dhcp6.sntp-servers;
require routers, domain-name-servers;
}

Basically, this is how i installed the dongle but it`s not working.

Have also tried to reset the dongle , using different apn settings , user name , password etc , without success.

Installed os on another drive but unable to connect .

Obviously doing something wrong, but what.

Need some help again , many thanks.

[kdeuser]

The solution was to recharge my sim card.

My apologies for being incredibly short sighted on that.

It seems i have a 300mb daily data limit ( thought it was 2gb for the month ).

Anyway , thanks to everyone here.

Note : for anybody interested in making the dongle work , my initial post still applies.