Hi Fedora Forum,
I'm a Software Engineering student from Switerland and this is my first post here.
I'm currently using Fedora 18 on my Zenbook Prime 11", which works like a charm, well, almost:
On my old Laptop I had an integrated 3g modem, for which I bought a SIM card. As I now don't have this anymore I had to buy an USB dongle. Since I have an orange contract, I went to their store and they gave me an "Orange Huawei E352" or that's at least what the packaging and the product etiquette on the dongle says.
The problem now is that it's not working. I've been digging into this, not giving up just yet. So what I did is search the internet and I found someone sniffing a slightly different MessageContent from the Windows driver. I duplicated the config file 12d1:1446 in /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/ to 12d1:1446.modified containing the new MessageContent.
What this changed is that the dongle now will connect but then drop a few seconds later instead of just failing in the first place (as it did with the other config file). usb_modeswitch uses the new file as you can see on line 10 of the pastebin post below.
These are the files's contents (12d2:1446.modified):
These are the other files's contents (12d2:1446):
USB ID's of the modified mode switch are: 12d1/14ac
USB ID's of the unmodified mode switch are: 12d1/1506
These are my actions:
I insert the dongle, it starts blinking just as normal (I'm referring Windows 7 usage).
Then after a few seconds, the "This device needs a SIM PIN" window appears, also very normal.
I can then enable Mobile Broadband, the dongle registers on the orange network (different blinking of the LED).
I connect using my preset connection.
The dongle connects, again different LED state.
I can access the internet.
After a few seconds, the dongle will drop the connection.
Any further attempts to reconnect will fail.
Here's an extract from /var/log/messages (network preset names removed) which states eveything that happens as mentioned above:
http://pastebin.com/j75KjH1h
As far this goes, I'm not getting any further debugging this problem.
Thanks for any help in advance, greetings Julian
I'm a Software Engineering student from Switerland and this is my first post here.
I'm currently using Fedora 18 on my Zenbook Prime 11", which works like a charm, well, almost:
On my old Laptop I had an integrated 3g modem, for which I bought a SIM card. As I now don't have this anymore I had to buy an USB dongle. Since I have an orange contract, I went to their store and they gave me an "Orange Huawei E352" or that's at least what the packaging and the product etiquette on the dongle says.
The problem now is that it's not working. I've been digging into this, not giving up just yet. So what I did is search the internet and I found someone sniffing a slightly different MessageContent from the Windows driver. I duplicated the config file 12d1:1446 in /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/ to 12d1:1446.modified containing the new MessageContent.
What this changed is that the dongle now will connect but then drop a few seconds later instead of just failing in the first place (as it did with the other config file). usb_modeswitch uses the new file as you can see on line 10 of the pastebin post below.
These are the files's contents (12d2:1446.modified):
Code:
# Huawei, newer modems (TESTING sniffed MessageContent)
TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProductList="1001,1406,140b,140c,1412,141b,1432,1433,1436,14ac,1506,1511"
MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"Code:
# Huawei, newer modems
TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProductList="1001,1406,140b,140c,1412,141b,1432,1433,1436,14ac,1506,1511"
MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000"USB ID's of the unmodified mode switch are: 12d1/1506
These are my actions:
I insert the dongle, it starts blinking just as normal (I'm referring Windows 7 usage).
Then after a few seconds, the "This device needs a SIM PIN" window appears, also very normal.
I can then enable Mobile Broadband, the dongle registers on the orange network (different blinking of the LED).
I connect using my preset connection.
The dongle connects, again different LED state.
I can access the internet.
After a few seconds, the dongle will drop the connection.
Any further attempts to reconnect will fail.
Here's an extract from /var/log/messages (network preset names removed) which states eveything that happens as mentioned above:
http://pastebin.com/j75KjH1h
As far this goes, I'm not getting any further debugging this problem.
Thanks for any help in advance, greetings Julian