tmobile usb3g on ubuntu / eee
Updated May 2009!
I have been informed that after upgrading the eee to Ubuntu 9.04 the usb 3g stick no longer works. Even after recompiling the drivers against the kernel, and a few other attempts to solve it, it would appear that the USB-serial driver which the stick depended on is no longer in the kernel (can anyone verify?).
Current workaround for me is to stay on Ubuntu 8.10 a little while longer, and hope the manufacturer gets the updated drivers out soon =(
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Having just recently aquired both an Asus EEE 901 and a t-mobile 530 usb 3g broadband stick, work began on figuring out how to install.
On a stock Ubuntu (8.10) distribution, download and extract the 2 tar.gz files. These contain the v1.6 driver (as opposed to the v1.2 in Ubuntu). The README and other documentation aren't very clear, but this is basically how I did it. They might not work for you, so don't blame me if you end up summonning Cthulhu all over your hard drive, or anything else nasty happens.
I've only put them here so I can download them to my own EEE after I replace Xandros by ethernet (The eee WiFi works, but the Xandros WPA is broken) and obviously, I cant use the usb3g yet.... ;-)
# this disables the old option ZeroCD driver
echo "blacklist option" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
tar xzfmv hso-1.6.tar.gz
tar xzfmv udev.tar.gz
# now cd into each directory and
make install
reboot
I found that the system can crash if the stick is removed.
These are the files from the CD rom that came with the stick, I shall post the md5sums but they matched those available to download elsewhere, so you might as well use the CD if you have it.
Linux drivers:
hso-1.6.tar.gz: 30.05 KB
udev.tar.gz: 27.19 KB
EEE drivers (for Xandros?) - not required for Ubuntu
hso_connect.sh: 7.14 KB
hso-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_1.4-4+5_i386.deb: 30.13 KB
hso-udev_1.4-4_i386.deb: 21.03 KB
Edit: Sorry folks, looks like I'd messed up the urls, I've patched them now! =)
I have been informed that after upgrading the eee to Ubuntu 9.04 the usb 3g stick no longer works. Even after recompiling the drivers against the kernel, and a few other attempts to solve it, it would appear that the USB-serial driver which the stick depended on is no longer in the kernel (can anyone verify?).
Current workaround for me is to stay on Ubuntu 8.10 a little while longer, and hope the manufacturer gets the updated drivers out soon =(
---
Having just recently aquired both an Asus EEE 901 and a t-mobile 530 usb 3g broadband stick, work began on figuring out how to install.
On a stock Ubuntu (8.10) distribution, download and extract the 2 tar.gz files. These contain the v1.6 driver (as opposed to the v1.2 in Ubuntu). The README and other documentation aren't very clear, but this is basically how I did it. They might not work for you, so don't blame me if you end up summonning Cthulhu all over your hard drive, or anything else nasty happens.
I've only put them here so I can download them to my own EEE after I replace Xandros by ethernet (The eee WiFi works, but the Xandros WPA is broken) and obviously, I cant use the usb3g yet.... ;-)
# this disables the old option ZeroCD driver
echo "blacklist option" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
tar xzfmv hso-1.6.tar.gz
tar xzfmv udev.tar.gz
# now cd into each directory and
make install
reboot
I found that the system can crash if the stick is removed.
These are the files from the CD rom that came with the stick, I shall post the md5sums but they matched those available to download elsewhere, so you might as well use the CD if you have it.
Linux drivers:
hso-1.6.tar.gz: 30.05 KB
udev.tar.gz: 27.19 KB
EEE drivers (for Xandros?) - not required for Ubuntu
hso_connect.sh: 7.14 KB
hso-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_1.4-4+5_i386.deb: 30.13 KB
hso-udev_1.4-4_i386.deb: 21.03 KB
Edit: Sorry folks, looks like I'd messed up the urls, I've patched them now! =)
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