PAYG Three Mobile Broadband Dongle

Can anyone help, I have an Acer Aspire Once notepad with Linux and cannot get my dongle to work.  Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks in advance

Urm, when you say "cannot get it to work", what have you done / how far have you got?

Have you read this document?

Specifically which dongle do you have? The larger white one should work Ok (HW 220) but I've heard conflicting reports about the smaller / more compact version.

It's the 160g I think the pen drive type, I've read your document but I don't seem to have the menu options you mention?

Previously Marie Thompson wrote:

It's the 160g I think the pen drive type, I've read your document but I don't seem to have the menu options you mention?

 

I've also installed Gnome pp, as recommended from another site, I've set up the username and password but it still says it can't find the modem

What Flavour of Linux are you using, my comments spcifically refer to Gnome based distros such as Ubuntu and Fedora ...

It operates using Linux Lite??

Mmm, never heard of it .. is there a web site for Linux Lite?

I use the 160g with aspire one and operate it via a vodafone app. Vodafone Connect Card Driver for Linux. It works nicely.

Don't suppose you have a URL for a howto ?  :)

To be honest, I tried so many approaches that I can't remember how I found it, but it's in https://forge.betavine.net/

 

I hope he doesn't mind me posting this direct copy but I think this is what I used to get this config working on my acer inspire one with a 3g three mobile e160g dongle.

oswaldkelso Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 248 Location: uk

Posted: 2008-09-28 17:51    Post subject: Sep 16 2008 Acer one with Debian lenny and Huawei e160g and Huawei e169 Today I bought a Huawei e160g hsdpa modem. I went to my local “3″ phone shop and took my acer one running Debian Lenny with me. After a little chat I persuaded the store assistant to let me plug it into their demo Huawei e169 hsdpa modem. This modem has a theoretical speed of 7.2 mb. At the moment here in the uk a top speed is a more realistic 5.4mb. Prior to going to the store I had down loaded and installed the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card -VMC Card Driver Linux 2.0.beta3. https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ The result was great the driver saw it and connected straight off I had bookmarked a download speed site and ran a quick test. A impressive 5.4mb. download speed was recorded. Things were looking good but I had on problem to solve. I live at the base of a viaduct in the valley between a small town and a village. My mobile phone reception can be dodgy depending on the provider. I knew O2, and vodaphone worked but had no idea if 3 would. Their map said excellent coverage around me and good coverage where I live. There was no way I was going to commit to a 18 month contract with no returns on phones when I may have no coverage. They did however have 3 days returns on modems and I could do a pay-as-you-go £50 for the modem and £10 for the sim. I bought a Huawei e160g and went to my sons to try it. At my son house a mile up the road from me we got the full advertised speed of the e160g modem. hsdpa was working and the blue light active. 3.6mb Modem Speed Test Page This page was loaded in 0.105 seconds. Your throughput 36740960 bps Typical ISDN 64K 64000 bps Typical ISDN 128K 128000 bps Typical 8M Broadband 8M bps At my house we got half dial up speed on the e160g modem!!! hsdpa was not working and the green light active. Modem Speed Test Page - Test Results Date: Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Time: 20:17:13 File size: 34963 bytes Download Time: 10.597 seconds Average Throughput: 3300 Bytes/sec (26400bps) *Estimated Connection Speed: around 26,400 bps Your throughput 26400bps Typical 33.6K 32000bps Typical 50K 48000bps Typical ISDN 64K 64000bps Typical ISDN 128K 128000bps I played around with it in different rooms but apart from 25 seconds when I held the modem against the window in a never to be repeated position I was flogging a dead horse. I even booted up osx and tried it with that no difference, same speed no even on 3 but Orange!! As I understand it if hsdpa fails it searches for the next fastest type of connection even switching carriers. They all have deals between each other to ensure you at least get some connection. Edit: I'm aware I've got my bits/bytes arse about face _________________ G4 digital audio 867 OSX and Debian Lenny. imac333 Lenny Mac classic os6. AMD 300mhz Slitaz.

hello mate i downloaded the driver from the vodaphone site but once i had downloaded it and tried to run it , it came up saying due to a child lock on the acer it could not be run, have tried looking for the system settings to change or get rid of the child lock but it is no where to be seen

any ideas?? help please :)

A child lock ?! If this is meant in the context of small people, I'm not aware that any distribution of Linux has anything remotely related built-in ..

Is it Firefox (i.e. your web browser) that is complaining with this error, by any chance? If not, we need more detail ..

If it is, this won't be related to the driver. Sometimes (this "used" to be a common problem, although you don't see it much now) if your machine [or Firefox] crashes, it leaves behind a lock file that's used to prevent you from running two conflicting copies of Firefox at the same time.

If this is the case, from your home folder run;

find .mozilla -name "*.parentlock"

If this looks "sane" (i.e. if it's only listing files ending in .parentlock) then do;

find .mozilla -name "*.parentlock" -exec rm {} \;

And this will clear any/all Firefox locks.

Warning; when using command line tools that you're not familiar with, it's always wise to make sure you have a recent backup of any files you can't afford to lose (!)