Yess! Finally I can connect the web with my new modem, Huawei Mobile Broadband e1752 (orange). It’s doorprize that i get at lecturer meeting of Universitas Budi Luhur some weeks ago. On Windows OS, it’s working properly and very easy with tools built-in on it. But, my computer use Ubuntu 10.04. I must set-up it first. Thanks to this blog for the tips.

Here the step

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Ok here is how I got my o2 E1752 Modem working in Ubuntu.

  1. Put your sim in your dongle and plug into a usb port.
  2. For the E1752 model the network manger applet will not pop up unlike other dongles. The reason for this is somthing to do with the device also acting as a storage device
  3. So what you need to do is use usb_modeswitch which can be downloaded in a .deb file here (found it somewhere can’t remember) which makes it easier to install.
  4. Then as root user find the file usb-modeswitch.conf and add the below code to the bottom of the file (big thanks to cocoa’s post here for that code). You can find at /etc/usb-modeswitch.conf. If you not find it, you can make with ‘sudo gedit /etc/usb-modeswitch.conf’
  5. ########################################################
# Huawei E1752
#
# Contributor:
DefaultVendor=  0x12d1
DefaultProduct= 0x1446
TargetVendor=	0x12d1
TargetProdct=	0x1001
MessageEndpoint=	0x01
MessageContent=	"55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"
  6. Then go into your network manager and go to mobile broadband tab.
  7. Click add and it will start a wizard, your country should be already Ireland
  8. Select your pay plan, mines o2 contract, then click next and then finish
  9. Then click on the new connect you just made and edit it.
  10. There should be default stuff in there, leave all that, but in the pin field place your own pin and click apply
  11. Once this is all done, open a terminal window and run this command
  12. sudo usb_modeswitch
  13. It will prompt for your system password, once the script does its thing the network manager icon should start doing something
  14. If not left click on it and select the connection you setup
  15. Now you should be connected to the world wide web

Well I hope that helps someone, because I know I was searching for ages trying to get it working.