Akhirnya ok juga celcom broadband saya ni...punya la sakit ati nda dapat surf in the past few weeks..Ok this time i'm going to show how to set your Huawei modem (the E220 model) on your OpenSuse 11.0

First you need to plug in your USB Huawei modem then wait for the led showing from blinking green to blinking blue (that means there's 3G signal). If the led shows green and doesn't turn to blue then that means only GPRS signal.

After that right click on the Network Manager (the green round like earth icon, if not connected to the internet the color is grey/white).



Then got to "New connection" and click the ttyUSB0 as shown in the pic below.



After clicking the ttyUSB0, it will show you this "Connections" window. Here you will create new connection for your Huawei modem.


You need to change or add the "Number" from *99# to *99***16# (that is the celcom broadband dial number. All celcom broadband dials this number)


After that click "Next" (I didn't change much the next few setting). It's up to you if you want to add/change/edit the settings. I just leave as it is.









Well thats pretty much of it. After that click "Connect & Save" and you're ready to go. Try open Firefox and see if you can surf. Sometimes before surfing using Firefox you need to check the "Work Offline" on the File menu. You need to unchecked it first then you can continue to surf...I think thats all and good luck setting the Huawei modem on OpenSuse

*sorry for my bad english. kira broken la katakan, biasa la kalo malas blajar :P

Macam ni celcom broadband ni, mau dekat 3 hari suda ni problem tdk boleh connect dengan internet (tapi kadang-kadang ada org yg dekat sebulan tak boleh surfing especially strymx users, but the bill still counts). Bayar bulan-bulan tapi service tdk pandai bagus-bagus, bikin kecewa saja. Bila sa try surfing kluar ni "Internet Connection Lost" ntah apa benda la...bikin panasss saja..Ni update blog ni pun dari ofis (herherher..time bos teda baru beroperasi).

After my celcom broadband back to normal i will update on using the Huawei E220 modem for OpenSuse 11.0 also Ubuntu 8.04 (using wvdial).

Mesti kamu pernah dengar pasal virtual pc kan...skarang ni sa mau cerita sikit la pasal ni satu software, virtualbox. Function virtualbox ni lebih dan kurang macam virtual pc la juga dan software ni freeware. Download saja di sini. Virtualbox ni membolehkan kamu install macam-macam OS, e.g opensolaris, semua linux distribution, windows (ya! sapa yg rindu mau pakai balik ms-dos/windows 3.1/win95/win98? nostalgia tue..) tanpa perlu kacau OS yg sedia ada (yg kena install dlm harddisk). Nak setting Guest OS tak juga susah, yg penting kena baca manual la (manual included in pdf format).


*Virtualbox running OpenSolaris 2008.05


*example of Guest OS settings

Saya skarang ni tengah testing guna os Opensuse 11.0. Saya blogging ni pun dengan opensuse la ni skarang. So far ok la juga. Semua berjalan dengan lancarnya. Driver semua no problem, semua ada/jumpa tdk payah mau susah-susah lagi cari, guna YaST saja. Semuanya ada di sana.

Ok, kepada yg baru bermula @ cuba-cuba @ try testing untuk guna linux lagi bagus kalau kamu cuba Live CD dulu. Dengan broadband yg kita ada skarang, kita bole download live cd tu dari Opensuse punya website dengan free (kan bagus freeware ni). Kenapa guna Live CD? sebabnya kalo guna live cd ni tdk kacau harddisk kamu, so no need to be worried la. Dari live cd kamu boleh la testing-testing software yg ada mcm openoffice, amarok dll. Yg bagus live cd ni kamu bole surfing internet trus dari live cd tu tapi ada kena set-set dulu la.

Kalau confident suda baru install permanently kat harddisk. Installation dia tak juga susah. Semuanya senang saja, straight forward, kalo pasal partitioning tu, tak payah takut la pasal opensuse dengan automatiknya akan tolong set partition hdd kamu. Kalo biasa buat partition sendiri tu boleh la mengedit sendiri (untuk jimat ruang ba). Minimum space hdd yg perlu 8gb saja tapi lagi baguih kalo boleh kasi lebih skit macam 10gb onwards la. Mana la tau mau tambah-tambah software di masa hadapan.

Kalau masi tak pasti @ tdk confident macam mana mau install ke harddisk bole la dengan daya usaha cari sendiri installation guide. Lagipun guide tu banyak kat internet. Search saja di Google. Kalo tak paham tu bole juga tanya saya tapi saya ni bukan la pakar sangat guna linux. Belum banyak lagi ilmu ni.
Pastu kalau dapat install dengan berjayanya kalo boleh update la opensuse kamu tu. Pasal banyak juga patch dia mula-mula tapi bukan lama pun update dia pasal linux ni update dia kecil-kecil saja (ada juga saiz besar la ).

Kepada yg guna Huawei E220 3G modem tu senang saja nak setting dia. Lain kali la saya tunjukkan di next post saya, itu pun kalau rajin la :p
Next post mungkin review pasal basic software yg kena guna untuk membolehkan opensuse ni berjalan dengan lancarnya. Memang kamu akan rely dengan 3 benda ni la, Terminal, YaST & YaST2. Ok until next time....

*more pics of Opensuse 11.0

Fuh..i'm back to blogging again after 3 years of not doing it..well i know this blog is nothing but useless but then again now i have this place to say what i want to say, to say my opinion and all that stuff. Others may say i'm lame..maybe i am lame...so what mind your own business..harhar. Well i think thats it for today, kind of lazy rite now..ZZZzzzzzz