ZTE MF112 Mobile Broadband & Ubuntu

catflea

Hi Guys, dont normally venture in here.

I've posted this on the ubuntuforums.org but thought I'd check in here too

I've recently aquired a ZTE MF112 dongle on 3, and am trying to get it to connect under Ubuntu 10.04 netbook remix (it functions under windows, but keen to avoid having to use windows to go online)

I've managed to get the laptop to realise there is a mobile broadband stick attached (have to eject the file system, and it then realises its a modem) and have supposedly set up '3 internet' on the connections on the task bar. I select it, the system thinks for a minute, connects and immediatly disconnects.

Any ideas what I should look for or what I can do?

fwor

Until a few weeks ago I had one of these and it worked fine under 10.04 on my laptop, without needing to install anything further.

However, I'm wondering whether the netbook remix - being "cut down" compared to the main Ubuntu releases - may have one or both of the modeswitch modules missing.

Have you checked whether you have both usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data installed? If you use apt-get, it should tell you if they are already installed, and install them if not.

You then just need to set up a profile for the 3 network connection using the details which IIRC I got from 3's own mobile broadband website.

abisum

Fwor thanks for the info. I had the same problem as catflea and decided to change from the netbook remix to the main Ubuntu releases. Fixed my problem.

Hammyman

In future, you need to have the usbswitch package installed which ignores the "memory stick" portion of the dongle.