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Accessing Internet on Fedora 10 using 3G Huawei USB broadband Modem from Nawras

Its been more than a month since i started to configure my Huawei modem for internet connectivity in Linux. Finally today i am logged in F10 and editing this post. 1. Firstly one has to check if the modem is being detected on the USB port. dmesg | grep USB should show entries for 2 or 3 USB ports. (ttyUSB0-ttyUSB2). My system shows 2 entries. Look the messages of following type: /***************************************************************************/ usb 4-3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 scsi18 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=1003 usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 4-3: Product: HUAWEI Mobile usb 4-3: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technologies usb-storage : device found at 6 /****************************************************************************/ The kernel should be able to identify the modem as a usb-storage device. If you have problems with this , workar