Re: T-Mobile Mobile Broadband USB stick 615 (Huawei e173)

I don't know about that gizmo, but more years ago than I like to remember my
first cellphone was with Sprint, and when I upgraded to a PCS phone with
data, I bought a USB cable for it. And it showed up as a working serial port
under Linux. As I recall a simple ATD out the port readied it for PPP. Might
not be so simple with a (vastly faster) broadband, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it just looked like an ethernet dongle. If you've got a
friendly T-mo store nearby, might ask if they have one you can try.

-Bennett
On May 6, 2011 12:31 PM, "Gary Nye" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> Has anyone used a USB Mobile Broadband device with LFS?
> A quick search with google comes up with Mint and Ubuntu and using
usb-modeswitch or something,
> and one result that went to T-Mobile said only laptops and sticks brought
as a bundle from Carphonewharehouse
> are supported.
>
> If someone has been able to get this working, any chance of a
guide/pointing in the right direction..
>
> ps at the moment i am running a 6.3 I think on a sony vaio laptop, and
about to install the latest 6.8 when i get around to it,
> if i have to i`ll use windows to download everything then boot into lfs to
start 6.8 install
>
> thanks for any replies
>
>

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