[nzlug] Vodem aka Huewai E220 - anyone got this working?

[Andrew Bruce]

They only support MacOSX and Windows - it says on VodafoneNZ's support 
pages for the device that Linux is unsupported (but other people have 
obviously made it work in other countries :-( )

Andrew

Vik Olliver wrote:
> Dumb question: Anyone talked to Vodafone or e-mailed them? I doubt
> they'll have in-house expertise, but they might be persuaded to talk to
> people who know how to make the thing work.
>
> Vik :v)
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 02:47 +1300, Joel van Velden wrote:
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>> After doing:
>> modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1001
>> modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003
>>
>> You wont see anything output on the screen, but `dmesg' may have some
>> new lines.
>>
>> I'm guessing gentoo uses udev so doing mknod may not work for you. Try
>> adapting the scripts at
>> http://spo0nman.blogspot.com/2006/08/huawei-ec321-cdma-on-linux.html
>>
>> As always, keep googling :) 
>> I'm sure it can work, it's more a question of how much time are you
>> willing to spend to make it? ;)
>>
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