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MissusCT Joined Oct 16, 2008 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 17, 2008 12:06:13 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Apologies for bumping a dead thread but I wanted to first say a huge THANK YOU to Sam, 5 days straight I've been working on trying to get this thing to work and had almost given up when someone directed me to this thread. For the first time ever I was able to connect, yay!! I'm running ubuntu and after I completed all of the steps, I went into firefox and it wouldn't load a page. It was "looking for google.co.uk" but never managed to load. Is this because of my bad signal? Or do I need to reconfigure the DNS? I'm hoping beyond hope I can finally get this thing working...
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Morganna Joined Oct 05, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 17, 2008 6:33:52 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Pleasssssse can someone respond to me - I still can't get it to work and am desperate :( I can't get past the Bad Init String message.
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 17, 2008 10:08:28 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hi Sam I hope you are still there! I have tried all your suggestions and seemingly successfully installed gnome ppp. But I am repeatedly getting 'No modem found'. Everything went ok until I hit detect and it couldn't find the modem. When I tried to connect to get a log report it said Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do notedit this file by hand!" WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy Do you have any suggestions as this is very depressing :( thanks Karen
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Adyj Joined Oct 18, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 18, 2008 1:22:43 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hi everyone. I'm totally new to Linux and have been trying for over a week to get my Huawei E220 modem (On 3) to work. Tried following all of the instructions you have all very kindly provided on here but nothing would work. Then this morning I have run a Live Update from the Settings tab on the Aspire desktop and a new piece of software called 'Mobile Partner' downloaded. I'm now very easily and very quickly using my USB modem to access the internet. Took a bit of trial and error but just if you would like to try, this is what I did. Once you have run Live Update and downloaded the patch: 1) Shut down the Aspire 2) Plug your modem into the USB port 3) Switch on the Aspire 4) On the 'Connect' Tab click on 'Mobile Partner' 5) It should now detect the modem 6) Click 'Tools' 'Options' 7) Click 'New' 8) Give your profile a name 9) Select 'Static' under the APN tab 10) in the APN box enter three.co.uk 11) In 'Access Number' enter *99# 12) In 'User Name' enter three 13) Password is three 14) Authentication Protocol is 'CHAP' 15) Click 'Save' After doing that I was able to connect from the 'Connection' tab at the top of the screen. Very happy now :-) Hope that helps those of you who are having problems getting it to work.
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 18, 2008 3:30:23 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband I am such a twit! I saw that download and even looked at it. Just didn't click on the options tab or I would have got most of what you said. Now - does anyone know how to down load aMSN for the AA1? Thanks very much for your help!
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Zuby Joined Oct 19, 2008 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 19, 2008 1:03:12 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hello Sam I have the acer with linpus. I have followed the instructions exactly and the acer aspire one (linpus) is connected through the mobile broadband. I know this beacause it says connected and the timer continues until i press disconnect. However, when I try to browse, the browser (mozilla firefox) does not work and thus I have not been able to browse the net at all with mobile broadband, the modem being e169g on 3 mobile broadband UK. Having said this the internet does work on my wireless home broadband connection, whilst using mozilla firefox. I don't know what the solution is. Could you please advise me?
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steve Joined Oct 20, 2008 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 20, 2008 7:36:01 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Similarly I received Mobile partner through an upgrade on my Asus One. I didn't realise what it was at first but a little investigation around the forums had me down the 3 shop buying a 3g dongle. Like you I filled in all the setup fields as above and the dongle connects (goes blue) and disconnects through the software as it should. The connection manager also sees the 3g device but the connect field is greyed out and is not selectable. Being a complete linux dumbo I feel as if I'm almost there but am stuck as to what to do next so I await further comments on this forum with interest.
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aragonflux Joined Sep 21, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 21, 2008 9:04:25 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hi Guys, if you have been using gnome ppp (as I had) you need to go back and reset the nameserver to 172.31.140.69 "sudo mousepad /etc/resolv.conf" then type "nameserver" space then "172.31.140.69" .As far as the greyed out connect bar have you tried in mobile partner interface, tools>options>network>registration mode click manual search and register wait for a minute or so and then choose UK20 3G and click the register button. I don't know for certain this will work but it is what I did and it worked for me. Hope this helps.
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greig Joined Oct 23, 2008 Posts: 3 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 12:49:29 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband hello Sam loving your step by step guide I have reaches step 3 but my computer does not seem to be detecting the modem: -> Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!" --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 --> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory --> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory --> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory Can you help????
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greig Joined Oct 23, 2008 Posts: 3 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 10:05:31 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband ANYONEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stil does not work its driving me mad!!!!!!!
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 6:28:16 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband [quote=Karen]I am such a twit! I saw that download and even looked at it. Just didn't click on the options tab or I would have got most of what you said. Now - does anyone know how to down load aMSN for the AA1? Thanks very much for your help![/quote] OK everyone - as far as I am concerned this is a weird situation which has not been covered yet. I tried gnomee ppp and it didn't work, likewise with WVdial. I thought I was on to a winner with Mobile Partner and thought I had it connected. This is the weird thing..... the modem looks as though it has connected as the light is solid blue but the connection in the tool tray says not connected. Despite the fact that I have no connection, I can connect to Skype and aMSN and use them properly. However, Firefox tells me it is offline. Because I don't have the 2 boxes in the notification area, I cannot try and reset the primary DNS servers to see if that is the problem. I tried typing it is with the "sudo mousepad" suggestion but that just returned bad command. So am at a complete loss as to how come I am connected but not at the same time! Any ideas? As with the last post - it is very frustrating!
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greig Joined Oct 23, 2008 Posts: 3 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 7:37:20 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Karen Did you post that for me where is the connect tab i dont know anything about linux!!
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 7:42:05 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband [quote=greig]Karen Did you post that for me where is the connect tab i dont know anything about linux!![/quote] No - sorry - I am still needing help myself. If you have Mobile Partner - which you should be able to get as an update, the once you have followed the directions posted above about Mobile Partner, there is a connect tab on that page. Sorry not to be more helpful. I have data uploading and downloading according to the stats and no connection!
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 7:45:20 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband PS - having re-tried changing the primary DNS server - it seems that it is already 172.31.140.69 :(
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Adyj Joined Oct 18, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 9:09:53 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hi Karen, I had the same problem when I first connected to Mobile Partner. When I clicked on 'File' in Firefox I noticed that the 'Work Offline' tab was ticked. I just unticked it and it worked fine. Hope that helps you too.
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 23, 2008 9:24:24 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Hi Adyj Yes I discovered that about 15 mins before your post! Thanks very much though. It is weird - it seems as though I have to untick that every time I open Firefox. Oh well - so long as it works. thanks
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hemsy Joined Oct 29, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 29, 2008 3:26:23 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband hi im trying to connect my aa1 to my virgin mobile broadband dongle ive got it connected but cant browse ive tried step 5 the dns bit but still cant browse help would be of great help thank you
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Karen Joined Oct 17, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 29, 2008 4:00:46 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband Check to see you are not working offline under the File tab.
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hemsy Joined Oct 29, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 30, 2008 4:19:33 PM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband hi i gave up on the virgin one and went to vodafone they gave me one its a vodafone mobile connect model: k3760 but when i plug it to my aao it doesnt recognise it as a modem it comes up with 'no modem was found on your system'
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sam Joined Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 20 Location:ipswich Other Topics	Posted: Nov 01, 2008 1:06:10 AM Subject: Acer aspire one linpus 3 mobile broadband My system has recently updated and installed Huawei mobile partner, which can be found under network when right clicking the desktop. Once this has installed gnome and wvdial no longer function. mobile partner is easy to set up tho and enables hot plugging of the dongle. it also gives detailed connection information. anyone having trouble should look in to this!
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