Huawei E176 and linpus

I am currently shopping for an umts usb modem and one of the most likely candidates is the T-Mobile web'n'walk stick IV - a rebranded Huawei E176. Does anybody know if it works with my aspire one A110L and the stock linpus? Failing that, any recommendations for a cheap (around 60€ new) modem with HSUPA and external Antenna support?

 

I -think- it should be OK.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/02/review_modem_hsdpa_huawei_e176/print.html

--Japser.

 

Thanks. I already read this page on my research before posting, but somehow missed the part about AAO and linux. I hope the meant linpus and not some other distribution (support exists in Ubuntu as I learned, but it boots much too slow for my taste).

I will report success or failure if I get my hands on the device.

 

Yesterday I got my sim card and tried. It worked - sort of. Certainly not the way I would like it. It was detected, I entered all my data and upon clicking "connect" it stayed there forever. But a 3G connection was established and I was able to transfer data. Mobile Partner was still display the dialog and not reacting to anything but a click on the "Cancel" Button. There was some linux software on the data partition of the Huawei Stick, but I couldn't find a way to configure it.

Does anybody have some hints on how to debug it? What does Mobile Partner do after all? Is it just a wrapper around standard system programs (such as pppd) or does it establish the connections all of its own?

 

I would try using wvdial.

sudo wvdialconf

lets you create a configuration in /etc/wvdial.conf .

Then

sudo wvdial

should make the connection.

( And with proper permissions ( group 'uucp' ? ) it should be possible to do this without sudo. )

--Japser.