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1. Martyn wrote:

   Also, if you use this method to connect under Linux, you may find (if you have no other network connections active) that when Firefox starts up, it does so in “offline mode”. This is because it queries the Network Manager application, and if *that* has no active connections, Firefox assumes it’s off-line.

   You can simply uncheck the “work offline” option in Firefox’s File menu, but you have to do that each time, which starts to get a bit tedious.

   I’ve just discovered an “about:config” setting which prevents Firefox from querying Network Manager, and keeps it in online mode all the time. Simply set

   toolkit.networkmanager.disable

   to true and the job’s done.

   Posted 27 Oct 2008 at 10:54 am ¶

2. raetsel wrote:

   Excellent post, worked first time. Thanks very much.

   I have seen the DNS problem of getting 10.11.12.13 as the server IP. When it connects properly it shows the servers as:-

   primary DNS address 172.31.76.69
   secondary DNS address 172.31.140.69

   What I have done is taken a copy of resolv.conf once I have a valid connection and just copy that back over whenever I get a bad IP.

   So do the following the first time you get a proper connection:-

   sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.three

   Then whenever you get a bad DNS server of 10.11.12.13 just do:-

   sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf.three /etc/resolv.conf

   Posted 27 Nov 2008 at 10:27 am ¶

3. Martyn wrote:

   Yup, that’s what I do too, I should have listed that as well. Thanks!

   Posted 27 Nov 2008 at 10:49 am ¶

4. Ben wrote:

   Or, you can just use “sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf” when you have the correct IP addresses; that stops the dialer from overwriting it.

   Posted 12 Dec 2008 at 8:48 am ¶

5. baley wrote:

   This Actually works with other Hueawei Dongles as well. In my computer I managed to make work the E156G modem under ubuntu linux

   Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 6:24 pm ¶

6. snoopy wrote:

   Please help! I am new to Linux and love it however I have read the above threads but am totally lost. Can anyone simplify with real step by step instructions e.g. go to and click on etc.

   Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 8:14 pm ¶

7. Steve_S wrote:

   This has worked great for me although being new to linux still I was wondering what the correct protocol would be for stopping the wvdial service…..or is it to just pull the plug on the dongle?

   I too am on the 3 network….when I first connect the device and it dials up it’s reporting I’ve got full 3G (fastest) connection but just as soon as I try to retrieve a web page or email this drops off to the next lower speed. Any thoughts?

   Thanks for the post,

   Steve

   Posted 04 Feb 2009 at 1:18 pm ¶

8. Martyn wrote:

   Hi Steve,

   The cleanest way to stop the wvdial is to press Ctrl-C in the terminal in which it is running. It will catch that and shutdown the connection.

   With regard to the step-down, I see mine changing quite a bit, up and down. I guess (but don’t know) that it steps down when it thinks it doesn’t need to be at full speed.

   Posted 04 Feb 2009 at 1:26 pm ¶

9. Steve_S wrote:

   Hi Martyn

   Thanks for the swift response. Will give Ctrl-C a go and see how it performs.

   With regards to the step-down in speed I need to test it further. From my inital use it seemed that when idle (i.e. not downloading any data) the flashing light indicated it was at full speed. Whenever I called it into action the step-down occurred….and it was dog slow!! And this I tested over a number of websites.

   The USB device definitely works okay as I’ve already tested on another machine.

   Not sure if this matters but I’m using the Dell Mini 9 with their flavour of Ubuntu 8.04.

   Thanks again,

   Steve

   Posted 04 Feb 2009 at 5:32 pm ¶

10. Andy c wrote:

    I am just about to do the jump from windows to linux ubuntu to see what it is like, i too have a 3 dongle could some one please simplify the above.
    can do anythin in windows but linux is a new ball game many thanks.

    Posted 15 Apr 2009 at 2:41 pm ¶

11. Jake wrote:

    Just tried this on my new Aspire One, and discovered that Linpus Linux Lite doesn’t let you write to /etc. Even if you’re logged in as root.

    Anyone got another idea?

    Posted 14 May 2009 at 4:49 pm ¶

12. Rich wrote:

    Hi everyone,

    I have tried the above, but when the ‘wvdial thre’e command is entered, the terminal returns: ‘Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory’

    Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what ttyUSB0 is?

    Cheers!

    Posted 20 May 2009 at 12:49 pm ¶

13. Tim Morgan wrote:

    Hi Martyn,

    Thanks for the your blog post.

    I tried what you instructed, but got to “sudo wvdial three” just as Rich posted above and got the message saying ‘Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory’.

    Posted 02 Jul 2009 at 9:42 am ¶

14. sifaizom wrote:

    hi
    thanks, worked using old linux fedora 7
    using HuaWei Broadband E156G
    toshiba satellite

    Posted 04 Jul 2009 at 10:06 am ¶

15. Anas .E wrote:

    Hi everybody,
    If you get the message : ‘Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory’.
    You just need to change ‘ttyUSB0′ in ‘/etc/wvdial.conf’ to your usb port where you have the modem ,to find it use this command ‘wvdialconf’ , it will show you a message like :
    ‘Found a modem on /dev/ttyUSB1.’
    so all you have to do is change ttyUSB0 to ttyUSB1 (in this exemple) in ‘/etc/wvdial.conf’.

    Posted 08 Nov 2009 at 1:53 pm ¶

16. Phil wrote:

    Im just getting “bad init string” or “unknown dial command” :\

    Posted 12 Nov 2009 at 11:27 am ¶

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