3G Wireless Dongle with Linux Mint 9 Isadora

[#1]

usb 1-3 new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
configuration #1 chosend from 1 choice
SCSI3 SCSI emulation for USB mass storage devices
usb storage ; device found at 4
usb storage; waiting for device to settle before scanning
SCSI4 ; SCSI emulation for USB mass storage devices
usb storage; device found at 4
usb storage; waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb storage; device scan complete
scsi 3;0.0.0. CD-ROM      HUAWEI    Mass storage 2.31 PQ : 0 ANSI ; 2
usb storage. device scan complete
scsi 4;0;0;0/ Direct - Access      HUAWEI    TF CARD Storage    PQ ANSI; 2
SRL; SCSI - 1 drive
sr 3;0;0;0 Atttached scsi CD-Rom ROM sr1
sr 3.0.0.0 attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
sd 4.0.0.0 attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd4.0.0.0 [sdb ] Attached scsi removable disk
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS; changing to secondary root
wlan0  . deauthenticating from 00.xx.xx.xx. by local choice (reason3)
(above line repeated)
wlan0 . direct probe to AP 00: xx;xx;xx (try 1)
direct probe responded
authinticate with ap 00:xx;xx;xx (try1)
authenticated
associate with ap 00:xx;xx;xx (try1)
RX AssocResp from 00:xx;xx;xx (capab=0x411 status-0 aid=2)
wlan0 : associated

[#2]

Ye, as I thought, Linux isn't recognising it as a modem.
Can you post the output of the lsusb command with the device plugged in, that should tell us what device it is. it should look something like this

Quote

linux:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Hama Optical Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[#3]

L not i 
Bus 005 device 001 id 1d6b 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus004 ditto
Bus 003 ditto
Bus002 device 004 ID 1bcf 0007 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus002 device 001 id 1d6b 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus001 device 004 id 12d1 1446 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Bus001 device 001 id 1d6b 0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[#4]

That pair of usb ID numbers (12d1:1446) is present in the latest version of usb-modeswitch-data, so I assume it would "just work" with a more recent Linux distribution.
You could try installing or updating the usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data packages. The usb-modeswitch package contains a program which (automatically) tells these kind of devices to stop pretending to be a CDROM and become a modem.

[#5]

When I got online after installing Mint 9 there were something like 437 updates downloaded and installed. so would have thought anything "out of date" would have been done... However... I`m thinking of downloding the latest version of Mint....... which is.....??????
or even Ubuntu 11.04
any comment or advice ? regarding that action? ? ? ?

[#6]

I always use the latest version of Fedora, I don't see any great advantage of sticking with the "LTS" releases.
Installing a newer distribution is better than having to install newer individual bits and pieces to get support for newer hardware. The updates released for Mint 9 will be mostly bug fixes and security updates, but not usually newer versions of things.
Mint 11 is available, based on Ubuntu 11.04.

[#7]

OK.... Thanks... will download both Mint 11 and Ubuntu 11.04 and start again! ! !
will close this thread, and also the other one.....
Thanks for all the help guys..... stand by ! ! ! 

[#8]

Quote from: ejs

That pair of usb ID numbers (12d1:1446) is present in the latest version of usb-modeswitch-data, so I assume it would "just work" with a more recent Linux distribution.

Oddly enough the Mint 9 LiveCD usb-modeswitch also has those USB IDs:

mint@mint ~ $ cat /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/12d1:1446
########################################################
# Huawei E270+  (HSPA+ modem)
DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct=0x1446
TargetVendor=  0x12d1
TargetProductList="1001,1406,140c,14ac"
CheckSuccess=20
MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"

Which differs from the Mint 11 12d1:1446 entry in /usr/share/usb_modeswitch/configPack.tar.gz:
########################################################
# Huawei, newer modems
DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct=0x1446
TargetVendor=  0x12d1
TargetProductList="1001,1406,140b,140c,1412,141b,1433,14ac"
CheckSuccess=20
MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000"

Dunno if replacing the old with the newer would work, though.