Comments on: SingTel Huawei E169 USB Modem with Fedora Core 8

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:50 +0000

For anyone using the e220 or e169 modem under fedora core 9 or any of the latest linux distro’s with network manager 0.7 installed, you don’t need to install any other software, when you right mouse click on the network icon, you will see a icon what says Auto gsm network connection, just click on that and your connected, you also dont need to put the apn in either, it works out of the box, hope that helps

By: JP

JP — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:25:45 +0000

Many thanks for the help miketeo, it worked just fine!

By: miketeo

miketeo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:29:41 +0000

@JP:
It appears that the modem might have been detected, but it’s just that you do not have permission to open for the /dev/ttyUSB0 for read/write.

Can you login as the superuser (root) user of the system, and run this command in the terminal:
$bash> chmod a+rw /dev/ttyUSB0

Then unplug and re-plugin your modem and try the vodafone software again.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:14:14 +0000

Hi there!

I’m glad that I’ve found this site, because I’ve just bought Huawei E169 USB Modem from a portuguese mobile operator (Optimus) and I’m trying to get it working on Fedora 9.

After testing the modem on XP to see if it was working with no problems, I reboot the computer to run Fedora and followed all the steps to install the packages and the Vodafone software, everything went ok.

But when I load the application, this is the message error I get: “Your device has been detected but it has been impossible to connect to it. Could not open port: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/dev/ttyUSB0′ “.

So, the app can’t detect the modem. Do you have any idea what could be the problem? Did I’ve missed something? Thanks in advance!

By: miketeo

miketeo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:39:23 +0000

@Chris:
Most likely, not. Most PPP connections use internal or reserved IPs. Such IPs are not accessible via the Internet.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:27:42 +0000

Mike, is it possible to set up FTP or HTTP server on a PC connected via such mobile broadband mechanism. In other words, what we do at home using port-forwarding, can these be done via mobile broadband? thanks.

By: miketeo

miketeo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:21:34 +0000

@Andy:
Try running “vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-debug” in a terminal. It should output some logs for troubleshooting.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:33:29 +0000

sorry, for posting question before i look up in the rpmfind.net
pytz also available at rpmfind.net

but it still failed to load application: without any explanation on what is missing..
any ideas??

o yeah btw, i’m doing this on a new AAO which is using linpus lite as the os..

if anyone know any AAO user with success on this issue, please let me know..i’m desperate..

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:27:40 +0000

Hi mike, thx for the reply first of all.

after i install the pyserial, then i run vodafone-mobile-connect-card-for-linux command, but it still gives me failed to load application, no module name pytz now..

so now no module name pytz…can point me in the right direction?? sorry for the inexperience…

regards,

andy

By: miketeo

miketeo — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:52:28 +0000

@Andy:
Please install pyserial. It’s available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46487&package_id=39324