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Hasiya
Asked: 2013-07-23 06:43:34 +0800 CST

How to Install NDIS Driver for Huawei mobile broadband devices?

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My 3G dongal requires the proprietary driver to properly work with Ubuntu.
It comes along with Huawei Mobile Partner installer. I was able to install Huawei Mobile Partner and the corresponding driver in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 without an any problem.

However, I can't install it in Ubuntu 13.10. (Didn't work since 12.04)
It gives the below error.
I've tried installing build-essential.

Any help is appreciated!

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"make: *** [install] Error 2
Install NDIS driver failed.
The compiling environment is not all ready.
Please check gcc, make and kernel build(/lib/modules/3.8.0-26-generic/build) to be all installed?
Now please enter any key to finish other installations.
NDIS is disabled, and only Modem can be used".
These packages gcc, make, and others are installed.

(The output is taken from a previous version of Ubuntu. The same error message is generated in 13.10. You can regenerate this error by trying to install my driver package. The mobile broadband is not required for the installation)

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Solution for NDIS Driver failed to install problem on HUAWEI Broadband devices:


    • Run the below command after installing the Huawei Modem Driver with NDIS driver install failed.

        sudo gedit /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver/ndis_driver/ndis_src/src/hw_cdc_driver.c

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    • Locate to the line Ln 2718,change dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev"); to //dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev");(adding double // infront of dbg),save the file and close the terminal.

    • Open new terminal and Change the directory path to /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver by running the below command

        cd /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver

    • Reinstall the driver by running the below command

        sudo ./install

    • Now,it shows NDIS driver installed successfully.

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  2. Another method:

    Run the below script only after Install NDIS driver failed error

    #!/bin/bash 
# check if the driver was installed or not
path="/usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver"
if [ "$(ls -A $path)" ]; then
     tput setaf 6; echo "Huawei modem drivers for linux are already installed on your pc.Please wait for NDIS driver installation."; tput sgr0
     perl -i  -pe 's#^(\s*dbg \("can.t kmalloc dev"\);)#//$1#' /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver/ndis_driver/ndis_src/src/hw_cdc_driver.c
     cd $path
     sudo ./install
else

    tput setaf 1; echo "Huawei modem drivers for linux are not installed on your pc.Please install that."; tput sgr0
fi

    • Create a script named ndis.sh with the above code and save it to your Home directory.

    • Run the below command to give execute permission for the created script.

      cd /path/to/the/directory/which/contains/script
sudo chmod +x ndis.sh

    • Run the ndis.sh script,

      bash ndis.sh

    That's all.I created this script because in the above answer,i mentioned to locate to the line 2718 and add // infront of it.But in some cases the code dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev"); was not on the line 2718,so it was so hard to find the line of code manually and then add // infront of that.

    This script automatically search for the line which contains the code dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev"); and put // infront of it.So that the line of code changes to comment,and then make the NDIS driver to install successfully.

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