Ubuntu, Virgin Mobile Internet Pre-paid (in Sydney), and the Huaweie160e
I recently bought a Virgin Mobile Broadband (Australia) PrePaid USB modem - a Huawei e160e. I activated it over the phone, and when I plugged it in to my Dell Inspiron 1525 running Ubuntu 9.10, I could see that it was connected to the network (this modem flashes a blue light every 3 seconds when connected to the mobile network). But, try as I might, I couldn't get it connected. Every time I tried, it would just disconnect. Looking in the system logs, I'd see: Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded. Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0 Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: CHAP authentication succeeded Jan 6 12:42:57 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: CHAP authentication succeeded Jan 6 12:43:06 paul-laptop pppd[2846]: Modem hangup Jan 6 12:43:06 pa