> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:20:22 +0800 > From: Christopher Lees <christopher_l...@iprimus.com.au> > Subject: Re: E160 wireless internet modem with 3 > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <1265707222.778.3.ca...@chris-desktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:00 +0000, Peter Kukums wrote: > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:20:54 +1000 > > From: Peter Kukums <pkuk...@ieee.org> > > Subject: Re: E160 wireless internet modem with 3 > > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > > Message-ID: <1265584854.4249.4.ca...@soprano> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > I have had no problems connecting other than poor signal sometimes, > > which Ubuntu doesn't indicate. > > > > What plan are you on? If you are using prepaid you have to edit the > > Three connection in Network Manager and change the APN to 3services. It > > does not set it up that way automatically. > > Only if you're using 8.10. Ubuntus 9.04 and above have a different > option for prepaid which will set the correct APN. > > The problems with connecting on 9.10 are to do with Network Manager > saying you're connected, and the little blue light shining on your > dongle, but it not really being connected. > > Chris Lees >
That is interesting because I only connected with Three after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 and I still had to edit the APN. I also did not have any trouble connecting after upgrading to 9.10, yet I have noticed that a lot of people have had major problems overseas with these Huawei dongles - e.g. Launchpad bug #446146 Peter Kukums
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