Nik the Greek a écrit :
Hi,
I've been experiencing a very bizarre problem :
I have an ASUS laptop with Windows Vista and a Huawei USB modem with a Tango subscription
[mobile internet]. It works just fine under Vista.
A couple of days ago I got from a magazine a DVD with several Linux distributions, I
tried some of them [namely Suse and Mandriva] in the live-CD mode [running from the DVD]
and they seemed to work fine. They even recognized the Huawei, configured it without a
problem and the internet connection was pretty good. As a matter of fact much faster than
Windows !
So, I decided to install Mandriva on the hard disk, installation went just fine [multiple
boot with grub], and internet was excellent.
And then I shut down and when I turned the PC on the following day, I had no internet and
Mandriva did not even see my Huawei modem! I tried several times with the other
distributions from my DVD but nothing. Huawei had disappeared completely!!!
Still I can use it without any problem from Windows !
Does anybody have an idea ? Who can help me ?
thanks in advance
Nikolas NASSOS
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The problem is well-known.
By heart, the Huawei modem also provides a virtual disk. The problem is
that the HAL service discovers it and tries to automatically mount it,
disturbing the serial USB module.
Various solutions exists and are explained on the web.
It is possible to forbid, as example, hal, to take in account this disk.
The symptom is that the modem appears and then disappears from the /dev
directory.