Evening all

Has anyone managed to get a Huawei 169G working with Three on Ubuntu?

It's driving me nuts! I've asked in alt.os.linux.ubuntu but I get the
same things as I've already tried.

Any ideas would be gratefully received!

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<Andy Jacobs>
<Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:55:28 -0500>
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> Any ideas would be gratefully received!
>

Install microsoft windows vista .

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:23:52 +0100, Krustov wrote:

> <uk.net.web.authoring>
> <Andy Jacobs>
> <Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:55:28 -0500>
> <tPOdnVMdpvpN1hfVnZ2dnUVZ8uadnZ2d>
>
>> Any ideas would be gratefully received!
>>
>>
> Install microsoft windows vista .

I know I said 'any' but I'm not that desperate!

Andy Jacobs wrote:
> Evening all
>
> Has anyone managed to get a Huawei 169G working with Three on Ubuntu?
>
> It's driving me nuts! I've asked in alt.os.linux.ubuntu

Have you tried ubuntuforums.org?

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:05:20 +0100, treadmill-- with the great taste of
fish wrote:

> Andy Jacobs wrote:
>> Evening all
>>
>> Has anyone managed to get a Huawei 169G working with Three on Ubuntu?
>>
>> It's driving me nuts! I've asked in alt.os.linux.ubuntu
>
> Have you tried ubuntuforums.org?

Yes. The trouble is, there are so many different suggestions and none of
them work. I've now got it to the stage where it dials and connects but
the DNS settings are wrong.

I'm going to shove it into a Windows box, get it working and then see if
I can find the settings to copy across.

This is the last link in the chain to get me totally over to Ubuntu on my
laptop so I really want to get it sorted. Mind you, just ordered an iPod
Touch today and I'm sure that will bring its own challenges!

Andy Jacobs wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:05:20 +0100, treadmill-- with the great taste of
> fish wrote:
>> Yes. The trouble is, there are so many different suggestions and none of
> them work. I've now got it to the stage where it dials and connects but
> the DNS settings are wrong.
>
> I'm going to shove it into a Windows box, get it working and then see if
> I can find the settings to copy across.
>
> This is the last link in the chain to get me totally over to Ubuntu on my
> laptop so I really want to get it sorted. Mind you, just ordered an iPod
> Touch today and I'm sure that will bring its own challenges!
>
Why not just buy a mac. I mean I am on Windows here but I would think
that if you do not want to use Windows then a Mac would be a better
option, as least for general computer use then Linux. Linux is great
as a server though.

Chaddy2222 wrote:
>
> Andy Jacobs wrote:
>
> Why not just buy a mac. I mean I am on Windows here but I would think
> that if you do not want to use Windows then a Mac would be a better
> option, as least for general computer use then Linux. Linux is great
> as a server though.

What?! YOU choose to use Windoze but you advocate Mac? Hardly a
compelling argument, eh?

Macs may be nice shiny toys if money's no object, but they do not give
you the freedom that Linux gives you - and I'm not talking about money
here. And Macs may well be good advice for people that don't have a clue
about computers, but for people that do have a clue, Linux has loads to
recommend it over and above any other OS.

If you read what Andy wrote you'd see that this is the 'last link in the
chain' in upgrading to Ubuntu, and I'm sure he'll get it sorted soon.

Andy - have you seen this?

http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=254

It's about getting it working with the EEE PC which is, I think, Xandros
(if memory serves, a Debian-based distro as is Ubuntu) so there might be
some useful info there.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:15:13 +0100, treadmill-- with the great taste of
fish wrote:

> Chaddy2222 wrote:
>
> What?! YOU choose to use Windoze but you advocate Mac? Hardly a
> compelling argument, eh?
>
> Macs may be nice shiny toys if money's no object, but they do not give
> you the freedom that Linux gives you - and I'm not talking about money
> here. And Macs may well be good advice for people that don't have a clue
> about computers, but for people that do have a clue, Linux has loads to
> recommend it over and above any other OS.

That's the long and short of it. I've got an iMac as well but I love
Ubuntu as a desktop environment and it gives me a chance to play with
other things. I've got Apache/MySQL/PHP installed along with our CMS and
a demo site so that I can show potential clients. I've also just
installed Ruby and Rails to start having a play.

On 25 Jul, 22:55, Andy Jacobs <nos> wrote:
> Evening all
>
> Has anyone managed to get a Huawei 169G working with Three on Ubuntu?
>
> It's driving me nuts!  I've asked in alt.os.linux.ubuntu but I get the
> same things as I've already tried.
>
> Any ideas would be gratefully received!
>
> --
> Andy Jacobs

Someone wrote a Linix driver for the older version (the one with the
cable).
It was called a Vodafone Huawei driver but it worked with any of those
modems by any phone company.
Presumably there will eventually be a linux driver for the newer
version.