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shehan hashera
Asked: 2020-06-11 22:18:16 +0800 CST

How do I use a Huawei 4g dongle?

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I'm a new comer to Linux. I'm going to install Lubuntu (which is the best for my PC specs). Now the problem is how do I connect to internet.

I don’t have a WiFi connection. I connect to internet by my dongle (a Huawei dongle and it is customized by MOBILY 4G).

It works fine with Windows because the it has a .exe file to install the software. But in Linux I can’t install .exe files without something like wine.(As I know)

So what can I do?

Model number of my dongle - E3276s - 920

Also mention how can I update my drivers. (The transparency effects don’t work.)

networking drivers 4g

1 Answers

  1. Welcome to Ubuntu. First of all I brief you about the fact that Wine in Ubuntu or any or Linux distro is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications. You need not to install any .exe driver in Ubuntu.

    1. First install modeswitch. Open terminal(CtrlAltT) and type 

      sudo apt-get update     
sudo apt-get -y install usb-modeswitch

      It will ask for your password. enter password. After that plug in your usb modem and run following command in terminal:

      lsusb

      Now your modem should be present in the list.

      Here is the further solution to add your modem as modem shared by johado in this post for

      Open terminal and type 

      sudo nano /lib/udev/rules.d/70-usb-modeswitch.rules

      after this open in terminal copy and past following line(note in terminal you have to use CtrlShiftV to paste) and press CtrlS to save.

      # custom udev rules for UMTS modems
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="12d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="14fe", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 14fe -M '55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000'"


ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="12d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1506", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'modprobe option && echo 12d1 1506 > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id

      I saved this as /lib/udev/rules.d/70-usb-modeswitch.rules.

    2. For updating your driver and software run following in terminal CtrlAltT

      sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

      then update software from update manager.

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