EeePC + Vodafone mobile broadband
Sep. 21st, 2009 07:57 pmI have an EeePC 900 running its original operating system and a Vodafone mobile broadband PAYG dongle K3565 made by HUAWEI.
To make the Vodafone mobile thing work I ended up doing the following:
1. Restoring the EeePC to its factory settings (press F9 while its booting, then you get a menu allowing you tell it to restore factory settings). I'm fairly certain my Eee PC hadn't been properly shut down at some point in the past. The discussion there seems to indicate that this is the way to fix this sort of problem.
2. Opening a terminal window (ctrl + alt + t) and then opening synaptic (software that deals with installing updates/new software) as per the Betavine instructions 'sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic'
3. Reloading the existing repositories [press the reload button] and installing all the upgrades as recommended [press the 'mark all upgrades' button, then the 'apply' button].
4. Then continuing to follow the Betavine instructions, by adding in their repository and installing their specific bits of software.
5. Open the Vodafone connect software while the dongle is in the USB slot. It connected quite happily. The 'email' and 'internet' buttons within the software both open Firefox.
6. Put dongle into USB slot on PC running Windows Vista, install Vodafone's connect software for Windows machines. Connect to the internet using Vodafone mobile thing, discover the telephone number of the SIM card in the dongle (text messages can be sent to it, but not from it (I think because it's a PAYG thing and this is a limitation imposed by Vodafone rather than a technical limitation).
7. Register that telephone number on the Vodafone website, so that I can top it up when I run out of credit.
To make the Vodafone mobile thing work I ended up doing the following:
1. Restoring the EeePC to its factory settings (press F9 while its booting, then you get a menu allowing you tell it to restore factory settings). I'm fairly certain my Eee PC hadn't been properly shut down at some point in the past. The discussion there seems to indicate that this is the way to fix this sort of problem.
2. Opening a terminal window (ctrl + alt + t) and then opening synaptic (software that deals with installing updates/new software) as per the Betavine instructions 'sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic'
3. Reloading the existing repositories [press the reload button] and installing all the upgrades as recommended [press the 'mark all upgrades' button, then the 'apply' button].
4. Then continuing to follow the Betavine instructions, by adding in their repository and installing their specific bits of software.
5. Open the Vodafone connect software while the dongle is in the USB slot. It connected quite happily. The 'email' and 'internet' buttons within the software both open Firefox.
6. Put dongle into USB slot on PC running Windows Vista, install Vodafone's connect software for Windows machines. Connect to the internet using Vodafone mobile thing, discover the telephone number of the SIM card in the dongle (text messages can be sent to it, but not from it (I think because it's a PAYG thing and this is a limitation imposed by Vodafone rather than a technical limitation).
7. Register that telephone number on the Vodafone website, so that I can top it up when I run out of credit.
