Sharing a USB modem in vbox

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Has anyone managed to get USB sharing in vbox working with a USB 3G stick?

I'm running an XP host with Mandriva 2010 as a guest inside vbox. While vbox picks up the USB device and hands it to the guest, it just never connects with a nice generic No carrier in the syslog. I figure there is some sort of trick to this, but google isn't playing nice.

Any ideas?

P.S. Please don't suggest connecting via the host and doing some sort of ICS, if I wanted to do that, I would have done it. :P
 
Interesting.

Just remember its not your host OS but the guest connecting so thats why you will not find anything in Syslog. Your host has a direct connection to the USB device. You will notice that once VBox alocates the resource to the guest/client you can no longer access it - well, limited access.
 
I was talking about syslog on the mandriva guest. :P~
 
Most important question: which 3g stick?

Second most important question: has XP automatically connected to your provider?
 
No XP has not automatically connected.

I can connect to my provider though XP if I need to (I.E. the stick does work). However I have to disconnect this so that I can give the USB device over to the mandriva guest (which is fine).

I've got a k3715 huawei from vodacom. I read somewhere that because it has a built in memory stick you need a blank filter, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
 
you prolly need these drivers:
https://forge.betavine.net/frs/?group_id=12

ozerocdoff, usb_modeswitch and vodafone_mobile_connect. the last one usually has a whole lot of dependencies which need to be fulfilled, so you're going to have to figure out how to fix that for mandriva.
 
Agree

Cannot comment on Mandrivia but under Ubuntu you need to install all the packages including the Vodafone Mobile Connect App. This app sets up the udev rules you need - no need to manual prick around.

You never mentioned you have the ZTE model (there are 2 models and the ZTE requires modeswitch to work). I have the ZTE one too and after installing these packages it works like a dream.

I even setup a notebook for a supernoob for this modem and he has not had a single issue yet.
 
I can give that a spin. I just figured I didn't need the drives as I also dual boot the machine, and on the Mandriva host on the other partition I didn't need any of that ***.

Thanks
 
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