The Huawei E220 can be a USB 'dongle' for HSDPA connection through the Vodaphone network.ĭownload vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux (in short, VMCCfl) :

This is the recommended way: see DialupModemHowto/Huawei/E220. Wvdial and its graphical frontend gnome-ppp

In Ubuntu 10.04 you may require the usb-modeswitch package for this device to operate correctly as a modem. So that when you re-plugged it, it should now be able to work with the modem part of the device addressing it as /dev/ttyUSB0, rather than that being the bulk storage device (virtual CD-ROM). You've also manually caused the recognition of the device (using the modprobe command). With new Kernels, you may have maybe two desktop icons and three entries if you do:īasically, what has been done is that you have removed the initial inclination to treat the device only as a bulk storage (removing the module that handles that). So, technically it is a modem, USB and (due to the CDFS format) virtual CD-ROM device. Two command-connection and one virtual cd-drive that holds some useless windows-drivers. Huawei E220 is an attached USB peripheral, not mass storage (bug interprets this 3g Modem as Mass Storage at first).The modem offers three virtual usb-connection. It does not work out of the box in Ubuntu. This article needs updating to include the latest versions of Ubuntu.

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