Vodafone/Huawei HSDPA USB Modem on openSUSE 11.3

Actually, I do not need mobile modem for mobile browsing because I mainly use internet access at home or by using public hotspot, but sometimes I need it when traveling and there is no hotspot available. I bought Vodafone-Huawei USB/HSDPA mobile modem E270, detected as K-3565 on Windows machine.
The modem bundled with 3 GSM, local internet provider here in Indonesia. Price are about IDR 600.000,- , equivalent with  approximately US$ 60, with free access bonus for 3 month. The modem also provide modem driver for Windows but sadly without modem driver for Linux. But, surprise, modem has successfully detected and works out of the box on broadband mobile connection-KDE desktop environment on openSUSE 11.3. Even better, I do not need modemswitch application to change from USB disk to USB modem.

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01.vavai:/home/vavai # lsusb

02.Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

03.Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem

04.Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

05.Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c045 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse

06.vavai:/home/vavai # dmesg | grep modem

07.[   73.732516] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)

08.[   73.732557] option 1-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected

09.[   73.732760] usb 1-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0

10.[   73.732775] option 1-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected

11.[   73.732891] usb 1-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1

12.[   73.732980] option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems

13.vavai:/home/vavai #

What I do simply using add Network Connection on mobile broadband network from plasma widget on the system tray (KNetwork manager), fill in some basic setting and then click connect button.

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01.vavai:/home/vavai # ifconfig

02.eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:C3:1F:29

03.UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

04.RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

05.TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

06.collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

07.RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

08. 

09.lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

10.inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

11.inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

12.UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

13.RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

14.TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

15.collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

16.RX bytes:4676 (4.5 Kb)  TX bytes:4676 (4.5 Kb)

17. 

18.ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

19.inet addr:10.41.83.46  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255

20.UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

21.RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

22.TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

23.collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

24.RX bytes:484 (484.0 b)  TX bytes:387 (387.0 b)

25. 

26.vavai:/home/vavai # ping google.co.id

27.PING google.co.id (66.249.89.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

28.64 bytes from nrt04s01-in-f99.1e100.net (66.249.89.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=219 ms

29.64 bytes from nrt04s01-in-f99.1e100.net (66.249.89.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=237 ms

 

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