Tchibo/O2 surf stick w. Huawei E173 - install in Win & Linux -> lost Internet

[RobF]

Originally Posted by mac_kissack

Hello.
After a lot of search and googleing I happened to land here.
I am trying to make a Huawei E173 USB modem on a Fedora 15 Linux system.
And I am looking for some more precise guidance since I haven't succeeded.
This is what I have done so far.

Don't know if it is a Network Manager issue.
I'm really stuck.
And my client is getting desperate after 1 month without an answer on my side.
Would appreciate any good hint.

Sorry, I hadn't continued following this thread. If you still haven't managed to resolve the problem, I'll write up what I'd done.

I got this working in Arch Linux in two systems, one with KDE, the other with LXDE. I had to install close to a dozen pieces of software, some of which may not really have been needed but then networkmanager (along with modemmanager plus plenty of other software) handles everything like a champ, without my ever having to go into and edit any config files by hand. I merely have to enter the SIM pin code and NWmanager handles the rest.