![]() I had rather hoped it would work out of the box on Mac, since the virtual CD mounted from it always contained a Mac setup file for a customised version of the Mobile Partner app. ![]() So I started trying to get the dongle to work. But I couldn’t afford to not have Internet the next two days. I took the 3 hour train trip and spent the evening without Internet. Yet, I had a lot of important work to finish by Sunday that I couldn’t postpone, and really needed reliable Internet.īut luckily, before I left Nugegoda, I had the sense to grab my dust-gathering 4G+3G USB dongle. My monthly 4G bill was left unpaid because I couldn’t afford to pay it right now and 4G was not working very well over there as well. ![]() So I used usb_modeswitch to change the mode and udev to make that behaviour stick.īut then I switched to a 4G router that had WiFi and never looked back for almost 2 years.īut I had to go to my parents’ near Chilaw and stay for this weekend. But I always had trouble loading it on my Linux (Archlinux, Elementary OS, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) installations.Īfter blindly muddling through forums and forums trying to find a working solution, I had a revelation: the issue was caused by the virtual CD image that automatically loads when I connect the device.įrom the shallow understanding I acquired, I saw that this had to do with the default USB mode not automatically being Modem. My Huawei/STC 4G+3G USB dongle worked almost perfectly in Windows over the brief period I tried out Windows, a few years back, in my university years. ![]()
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