July 27, 2008

HOW-TO: Install Huawei E220 USB modem on CentOS 5

For :

CentOS 5

RHEL 5

  1. cd /usr/local/src

  2. download huawei.tar.bz2 from http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/src/huawei.tar.bz2 to /usr/local/src

  3. tar xjvf huawei.tar.bz2

  4. cd huawei

  5. su

  6. make info

  7. cp conf/wvdial-huawei.conf /etc/

  8. mkdir -p /etc/chatscripts/

  9. cp conf/huawei-e220.chat /etc/chatscripts/

  10. cp conf/huawei-e220 /etc/ppp/peers/

  11. cp files/99-huawei.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

  12. cp files/huawei-mobile.sh /lib/udev/

  13. Reboot

  14. Open a terminal

  15. sudo wvdial  --config /etc/wvdial-huawei.conf

  16. Leave this terminal minimize

  17. Open another terminal

  18. cd /etc

  19. vi resolv.conf

  20. Insert these two lines:

    nameserver x.x.x.x (replace x.x.x.x with your primary DNS address)

    nameserver x.x.x.x (replace x.x.x.x with your secondary DNS address )

  21. Save your resolv.conf

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