Loading ...Getting this baby to work has been a not so enjoyable experience. After what seemed like fighting a losing battle, I stumbled upon the above mentioned post, I read through the post carefully and got stuck on the first bit where I had to reset the username and the password.
You see, unlike other people, I have been using the same phone for the last four years and my phone can’t exactly change the pin on a 3G card. It’s basically like asking a 1.3 Toyota Hilux 1988 model to do 120 up a steep hill. So after this first failure I decided to read on just for interest’s sake.
After a while of reading I decided to try it anyway, but still, I couldn’t get it to work. Just as I thought it was a lost cause, I came across this better entry which was for an E620 model, and for what I think was Vodacom or maybe Vodafone. After reading through it I remembered I had previously installed a copy of PPP.
This is how you get an MTN Huawei E220 from MTN to work on ubuntu 7.10. I adapted it from Manfred Hertenberger’s comment on http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/?p=1596
pre-requisites
Start with a sound PPP installation (by that I mean it’s working).
To connect use pon [name you gave above], for example: pon MTN.
To disconnect — poff
Happy surfing!
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The username and password are not linked to the sim card, so you can put anything you like in those fields.
The SIM cards that MTN supply with the E220 do not have a PIN by default, which is why your configuration worked.
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