Huawei E-173

[hugok]

Changing to Ubuntu 12.04 until the next realese of salix "14" because i can't be able to connect my mobile broadband device in salix 13.37

[mimosa]

Did you try Slackel? If that doesn't work, then 14.0 may not either - without a bit of detective work to find out what's causing this.

[witek]

Changing to Ubuntu 12.04 until the next realese of salix "14" because i can't be able to connect my mobile broadband device in salix 13.37

Fedora suprisingly is better than Ubuntu regarding mobile broadband. My Huawei E-173 works in Fedora without any fiddling but in Ubuntu clones it doesn`t.

[kgha]

Could this be a solution? See last post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... -a-943335/

[Andyun]

Usb_modeswitch requires "Tcl" - just install this package from Gslapt and try again with (or without, if you know how) Network-Manager-applet (NetworkManager), ModemManager and mobile-broadband-provider-info (for Slackware 14 these packages are in the official repositories!).

[hugok]

I'm quite happy with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (Unity 2D)... but i miss the stable and faster salix OS. I see that salix OS 14.0 its near to be release now
I plain to install salix 14 but i want to be able to connect my mobile broadband device easily so that i can surf the internet like i do in ubuntu? Wicd don´t support mobile networks... how can i change that? another thing is, i have grub installed now, if i install salix does lilo replce grub and also boot the other OS that i have (Windows Vista)?

[mimosa]

Dual booting Salix and Windows with Lilo should be no problem (I do) - and anyway, you can always install grub later if you want.

Regarding your internet problem, the only way to find out for certain if 14.0 has solved it is to test it.

[Andyun]

I plain to install salix 14 but i want to be able to connect my mobile broadband device easily so that i can surf the internet like i do in ubuntu? Wicd don´t support mobile networks... how can i change that?

Easy! (Salix OS 14.0 Xfce):
1. Install from GSlapt: Network-manager-applet, ModemManager, Gnome-keyring and Usb_modeswitch.
2. Remove Wicd.
3. Main Menu -> System -> System services (gtkservicesetup) -> set a tick on "networkmanager" and remove on "wicd" -> button "OK".
4. Reboot the computer.

[hugok]

i´m going to install salix 14 beta in virtualbox and give it a try..Thanks

[mimosa]

Virtualbox won't help, because it sees the internet available through the host as eth0. It has to be a real install.

My guess is it won't just work out of the box, but even so, it may now be possible or easier to fix.

EDIT Or try with the Slackel Live CD. I don't think the kernel it ships with is as recent as the 14.0 one, but it's a lot more recent than the 13.37 one.