Comments on: Telstra NextG working with MF626 USB modem

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:00:09 +0000

There was another bug with 10.04 which needed the right modules loaded, namely usbserial and option. -c

By: Kane

Kane — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:57:30 +0000

I following this tut today but it didn’t work for my unfortunately, might not have followed it right but that’s the beside the point.

What I found that DID work for Ubuntu 9.04 was when the device is mounted as a file system, right clicking and hitting Eject instead of Unmount or Remove Safely. For whatever reason that enabled it to detach the storage and power as a network adapter instead. If that works for more of you, good for a quick and easy way around it.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:38:37 +0000

Hi Jamie, I’m not sure of the current state because things have changed a lot. However, it has been fixed up stream, see here:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24165

Not sure how long that would take to filter down to you, but you could built it yourself

Other than that, sometimes I’ve noticed it not working properly if you unplug it without rebooting.. Try rebooting, or restarting HAL or something.. see if that helps.

-c

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:28:53 +0000

Hi There

Tried your guide and unfortunately it didn’t work.

It very briefly worked, I connected and the dongle was flashing blue. I however could not access the Internet.

Took the dongle out and put it back in again but it didnt seem to automatically connect at all anymore.

Refollowed your instructions and it didn’t work at all this time!

Help!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:47:02 +0000

Hi Nick,

Most USB modems are two devices, a “CDROM” and the modem itself. The USB modeswitch program can tell Linux to switch it from the CDROM over to the modem, when it’s not already supported by default (most devices will work automatically).
What device do you have?

Anyway, to answer your question, you can manually download all of the required packages for usb-modeswitch and install them with the “dpkg” command.

Here is the Ubuntu 9.10 link:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/usb-modeswitch

Run:
sudo dpkg -i usb-modeswitch*.deb

This will install and then tell you what dependencies are missing. Go and download and install them too. Alternatively, take it to your local Linux user group and I’m sure someone will be able to help you in person.

-c

By: Nick Kenney

Nick Kenney — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:32:45 +0000

Hi Chris:

Been using Windows for so long I’m sick of it. Tried Linux so many times and get frustrated because I can’t get my Telstra Pre-paid Wireless modem to work. So I go back to Windows.

Currently trying to get Debian 5 Lenny live or Ubuntu 9.10 live configured but they only the recognize modem as a USB storage device.

Your article looks the easiest I’ve seen so far to follow; however, I can’t install the components for Debian Sid i386 usb-modeswitch package from Linux because I haven’t got a modem connection yet.

I’ve downloaded onto Windows desktop and copied to a USB stick. How do I install the usb-modeswitch from the stick to Lenny or Ubuntu. As you can tell by this request, I’m not really a Linux power user.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Regards,

Nick Kenney.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:34:25 +0000

Great, please do

By: Netbook Newsroom

Netbook Newsroom — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:09:11 +0000

Thanks for this post! I’ve been trying to get my dongle (a ZTE model from 3 UK) working for a couple of days and have read threads on the Ubuntu forums, but this looks like a mix of two different techniques I’ve come across. I’ll try it when I get home tonight and let you know how it goes!