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Thanks for this info. For some reason the 3G USB Modem Device was showing as a USB Storage Device. Their seems to be another work around by disabling it as a storage device and configuring the modem via gnome-ppp - At this stage I have no idea how to do this yet. You would still need internet access to install gnome-ppp anyway I would imagine.On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Joe Buckle wrote: > Yesterday I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my mum's HP Pavillion > laptop (woohoo she's gone linux). Unfortunately, she uses a 3G USB > Dongle device to connect to the internet. Installed Ubuntu, but I > couldn't connect to the internet with her dongle. I found myself a bit > stuck because that was the only access to the internet. So I laptop > away. Eventually, I have got this sorted by installing USB ModeSwitch > which obviously I couldn't install without the internet whilst at my > mum's. > > The purpose of this thread is to try and establish whether it would have > been possible to get the dongle to work without having to connect to the > internet to download USB ModeSwitch. If not, then I guess I need to be > better prepared next time! haha No. I have a modem that needs this magical mode-switching too - however I did have alternative Internet access to get the software required (I'm just using http://www.sakis3g.org/ when I need it) So put sakis on a separate usb stick for next time :) For those who don't know, the mode-switching is (I think) and attempt by the manufacturers to save a few cents per device by not including a usb hub in the device, or separate CD, etc. The device initially looks like a USB drive (and the one I have allows me to plug in a micro-sd card too), but you need to poke some magical command to it to switch off disk mode and switch on 3G modem mode - all this rather than install a few more gates to create a USB hub, I presume. Under Windoes, the tiny internal USB drive has the driver - although the one I have (ZTE MF-112) doesn't actually need a driver once it's switched, so the switching part is a total waste of time) I've never been able to read the internal drive on it under Linux anyway, but I've not really tried that hard. Gordon
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