[SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager simply doesn't recognise it. Alternatively if someone could point me to documentation on how to ge new $random_device working with NM that would also be ap

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu > 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager > simply doesn't recognise it. > > Alternatively if someone could point me to documentation on how > to ge new $random_device workin

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-26 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu > 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager > simply doesn't recognise it. This device is rather confusing. When plugged into the machine lsusb says: 12d1:1446 Huawei Techn

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-26 Thread David Lyon
was 'usb-dev' tried? on ubuntu I had a 3 modem, and once you do a "apt-get install usb-dev" it suddenly was recognised and came to life.. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo < mle+s...@mega-nerd.com> wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 p

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-26 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
David Lyon wrote: > was 'usb-dev' tried? > > on ubuntu I had a 3 modem, and once you do a "apt-get install usb-dev" it > suddenly was recognised and came to life.. Err, there is no 'usb-dev' package. There is a libusb-dev, package, but that is the development files for the libusb library which