In a follow-up to my post about 64bit Linux and Vodafone 3G Dongles, here’s how I got it working under 32bit linux:

• Download and install beta3
• edit your blacklist file and blacklist airprime
• remove airprime (modprobe -r airprime)
• Plug in your dongle
• Run the Vodafone Mobile Connect software

I’m currently connected using my 3G dongle under Ubuntu 8.04 (32bit) – everything is working fine.

After a little bit of work and a strange error, I managed to get one of Vodafone’s Huawei E172 USB 3G dongles working with 64-bit Ubuntu.

I used the 2.0beta3 AMD64 drivers (I’ll be trying the i386 ones on my laptop later), however the device, whilst detected, would never connect – it would always immediately hang up after CHAP authentication.

Digging around it became apparent that if an incorrect APN is used, the connection will either hangup immediately, or bad IP addresses will be delivered.

So, here’s the details needed:
APN: Internet (with a capital “I”)

Using this APN with the provided username, password and dial number, and the 20betas3 Vodafone Mobile Connect software I was up and running pretty much straight away.

Kudos to Vodafone for making the effort to release a Linux version of their connection software.