Daniel

In order for us to get a dongle working on Ubuntu we need to check we have a few prerequisites first before we are able to do anything.

The software we are going to be using with the dongle to connect and disconnect from the internet is going to be HSO Connect.  There is a guide on there website for getting a dongle to work on Ubuntu but I personally felt it was a complicated way to get it to work when there is a easier way.

Back to the prerequisites at the time of this being written the HSO Connect software is written on python 2.5 and so this needs to be installed, if you have jumped the gun already and have the HSO Connect software installed and have tried to load it you will have got the message “Failed to execute child process “python2.5″ (No such file or directory)”.  Basically just Ubuntu telling you python 2.5 isn’t installed.

If you haven’t yet installed the HSO Connect software you can easily check if you have python 2.5 installed by going to the menu bar at the top of the screen and clicking on system -> administration -> synaptic package manager -> then type in the quick search box “python2.5″ once the package has been found right click on it and choose mark for installation, then click apply.

Once python2.5 has been installed we then need to get the HSO Connect and HSO Link software from there website here: http://www.pharscape.org/HSOconnect.html / http://www.pharscape.org/hsolinkcontrol.html.  When I downloaded the packages using firefox I choose to run rather than save the packages, however when I did this I got an error message saying that the files “could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences.” you may also get the same error message, I would advise you to save the packages first and then choose to run them to avoid this error message.  I can only presume its something to do with firefox.

Once they have been downloaded double click on each of the files one at a time, doesn’t matter which one you do first.  A new window will open with information about the package and an “install package” button, click on this button for both of the files that you downloaded earlier, once there both installed you can find the HSO Connect software by clicking on the menu bar at the top of the screen and clicking on applications -> internet -> HSOConnect software.

In order for you to actually get connected to the internet you may need to add the apn name and username and password into the software before you can get connected.

But thats all there is to it I can guarantee this does work I tested it with an Orange icon 225 dongle, but this will work the same with the huawei dongles.

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