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funkypotatoe

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Registered: 2012-03-23

Posts: 47

Usb dongle

Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to make usb dongle internet work during arch installation. I have a swedish Telenor usb dongle, which asks for pin code every time when i plug it (in Ubuntu/Windows).
Ubuntu's lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard

So the question is "how to make it work from console setup" ?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Usb dongle

A quick search shows eight wiki pages about various Huawei devices - might be some ideas for you there.

thof

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Registered: 2012-05-27

Posts: 16

Re: Usb dongle

So the question is "how to make it work from console setup" ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … dem#wvdial

Btw. NetworkManager can store your PIN.

Last edited by thof (2012-08-11 10:29:12)

funkypotatoe

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Registered: 2012-03-23

Posts: 47

Re: Usb dongle

So the question is "how to make it work from console setup" ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … dem#wvdial

Btw. NetworkManager can store your PIN.

I have no internet connection "during arch setup"...

tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 131

Re: Usb dongle

Have you got:
- wvdial
- wvstreams [there is word out that the latest version is giving issues - I am currently using 4.6.1-3]
- make sure your wvdial.conf has Stupid Mode = on if you are experiencing problems with pins and passwords.
- usb_modeswitch...?

I dunno how the new install method works, but normally one could just download the necessary files, copy to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and install with pacman -U pkg-name.

Good luck!