Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

Forum thread started by tcvarlh on Mon, 2011-03-14 16:31

I use a Vodafone UK E272 (Huawei) dongle modem that I swap from Win 7 on PC to Mac OS 10.3.9 on my G3. (Old but beautiful)

I'd like it to work with Haiku, therefore I wondered if anyone knew how to get the thing up and running.

Not being a Whiz with PC's I need help here.

Thanks in anticipation.
h

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Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by thatguy - 2011-03-14 16:53

Try the mailing list.

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by tcvarlh - 2011-03-14 17:41

Sorry, but what's 'the mailing list' ?
h

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by tcvarlh - 2011-03-14 17:42

Sorry, but what's 'the mailing list' ?
h

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by thatguy - 2011-03-14 19:08
tcvarlh wrote:

Sorry, but what's 'the mailing list' ?
h

haiku mailing lists at freelists.org

there are several of them. the general haiku@freelists.org and haiku-developement@freelists.org being the onces most prominently in use.

You will have to get a account at freelists.org though.

fiarly easy to steup. Wish I knew if you device was supported and it maybe be. but usually if a drive exists and it work, the devices works. There is also some unfished developement for WEP IIRc that is awaiting completion currently.

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by tcvarlh - 2011-03-16 16:33

It seems as if no-one has any knowledge about it I spent hours reading thru' stuff but nothing.

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by tonestone57 - 2011-03-16 17:08
tcvarlh wrote:

It seems as if no-one has any knowledge about it I spent hours reading thru' stuff but nothing.

Fairly sure this requires dial-up support which is lacking in Haiku. I don't think you'll get it working until a developer gets dial-up working in Haiku.

This post (& thread) may help you some. Best comments near the end.
http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/trying_connect_wlan#comment-15892

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by phoudoin - 2011-03-16 19:39

Unfortunatly, Haiku don't yet support USB modems and more generally dialup networking.

Your USB 3G modem behaves like a modem, like pretty much all USB modems and phones with an USB data interface does.
Unfortunatly there is no dialup networking support yet, without which those devices can't be viewed as a network interface by the system.

It's a pending feature, though, and one of the most-missing according to a poll we conduct late 2010. Haiku is not mobile-ready ATMn but must be in the future.

Re: Vodafone UK Huawei E272 Dongle Modem & Haiku How to?

by phoudoin - 2011-03-16 19:59

Ooops, duplicate post.