Mobile Broadband

[AndieB]

Hi,

I am trying to help my friend whom I helped installing Linux Mint v.8 on his laptop.
He owns a mobile broandband device from the operator Telia. On the dongle has the following information:
Option iCon 505

My friend says that when he inserts the dongle in the USB port, nothing happens at all.

Anyone has some guideline on how I can help my buddy?
By the way, he is loving Linux Mint and is thankful for leaving the Windows environment.

Sincerely,
Andreas

[vrkalak]

Does this USB modem have a storage drive?

If it does you will need to activate a USB Mode Switcher, otherwise the computer will only recognize it as a USB storage device.

There are a couple of good tutorials on using the USB Mode Switch

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1146110
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-setup- ... buntu.html

I don't know if a USB storage device is the problem?
But many of the new USB Modems have one.

The "USB Mode Switch" is also, included in the Ubuntu/Mint Synaptic Manager / repositories. Just install it and use the various links to activate.

I use 2 separate USB Modems for my broadband connection; one is easily recognized and I am on-line in every Linux OS that uses Gnome Network Manager, in seconds..
And the other is a Cricket A600 USB Modem, that has to have the Mode Switcher to work in Linux.

[pdc_2]

belatedly, if I comment that the folks at ozerocdoff believe it is the correct software to use for option devices

http://www.pharscape.org/forum/index.ph ... 809.0.html