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Fazl (alphamale18) wrote : USB Broadband HSDPA Dongle ZTE MF637 doesn't connect

Please bear with me as I am a n00b at Xubuntu (Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid as far as I can tell)

I have a ZTE MF637 Broadband dongle which I cannot connect to the internet with. I see that there have been problems with the older MF622, MF626, MF628 and MF632 but I don't see anything about the MF637. I've been trying to get mine working using the same solutions but have come to a dead end where i don't see what the modification for (gedit /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi) file which was reported in bug #305968. On top of that, I tried to do the modification for what IS in the file and I don't seem to have permissions to do it and I don't know how to give myself those permissions. What I am hoping is that these bugs are already resolved, but if they are, I don't understand how they still exist since I only downloaded and installed my Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid about 18 days ago.

A little background on my problem: I bought the USB dongle to connect to the internet faster than what I have now. Currently I am connecting through a Motorola C380 and using it as a modem via USB. It is only getting about 10kps at max so I bought this dongle hoping it would work just as easily but unfortunately not the case. I went online to try to see if there were any packages i could install via Synaptic Package Manager that might help. I've installed a few which managed to make the Dongle's light go blue (3G operational) instead of the steady red (communication error). With this, i thought I was making some progress but no luck after that. I've downloaded a few other packages but none seem to help. They were "3G managing" packages for 3G dongles.

Originally I thought the issue was that my computer was not even recognizing the dongle because when i went to Terminal and punched in LSUSB, or DMESG, i never got any change. The other thing is that I am using a PCMCIA to USB adapter card for my USB devices. These devices all work fine but when I plug in the dongle, the PCMCIA card freezes up and I lose communication from it. I have to remove the dongle and reset my PCMCIA card and then the devices work again.

I think thats all the information I can tell. I don't know of anything else to do.