Vista Support

This may interest everyone. I stopped by Huawei's site today and noticed they have a new version of their driver released on 10 February 2007. http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/doc/list.do?type=-1&id=305

They have two (right at the tope of the page) that say "Normal" so I am not sure which one is right. Anyways I am busy downloading the smaller of the two and hopefully this one is the Vista compatible driver that works !!!!

Here's holding thumbs ... hard to type though :) Will let you know shortly if this one works for me.
 
threegee said:
This may interest everyone. I stopped by Huawei's site today and noticed they have a new version of their driver released on 10 February 2007.
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@threegee: Check the version numbers, those files are old. Strange thing is that a lot of the old files reappeared with the date February 2, 2007.

The one called E620 HOSTB113D01SP04C00 (Normal) is identical to the file called cd2host01b113d01sp04c00 (Normal with Voice Call) from July 2006.
The one called E620 HOSTB113D01SP01C03 (Normal) is different from cd2host01b113d01sp04c03 (Nomal) from July 2006, but the version number seems to indicate it is older.

If you're after a Huawei E620 driver for Windows Vista (32-bit), try this one.

For more information, see this this thread.
 
So that was a waste of 68Mb Bandwidth. Thanks anyway for the heads up. I tried that driver version 2.0.3.0 for the E620 and it also did not work so I am guessing it may be a problem with the drivers for my PCMCIA adapter. The laptop is using the built in Vista drivers for the Texas Instruments PC Card Reader and maybe that is where the real Gremlin is. Ah well .... I will eventually figure it out.

Cheers
 
threegee said:
The laptop is using the built in Vista drivers for the Texas Instruments PC Card Reader and maybe that is where the real Gremlin is.
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Must be, my DELL laptop's one is a "O2Micro OZ6912/601/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller", works like a dream with the E620.
 
threegee said:
So that was a waste of 68Mb Bandwidth.
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:eek: I hope that wasn't on your data card!
threegee said:
I tried that driver version 2.0.3.0 for the E620 and it also did not work so I am guessing it may be a problem with the drivers for my PCMCIA adapter.
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What exactly happened?

Has anyone tried the 75MB monstrosity, Vodafone Mobile Connect 9.1, available here?
 
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configuring HSDPAon Vista

Hi

Is there any special trick to get a E620 card to work with Vista?
 
ginggs said:
:eek: I hope that wasn't on your data card!

What exactly happened?

Has anyone tried the 75MB monstrosity, Vodafone Mobile Connect 9.1, available here?
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This is new. Recently there was a link for the RC4 of 9.0. My card is still listed as too be supported soon but will give it a try just for the hell of it. Size seems about right thought.
 
mikeymol said:
Is there any special trick to get a E620 card to work with Vista?
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Not really, you just have to unzip the driver you downloaded above and when Vista asks for the driver point it at the folder where the driver is located.
If you've already attempted installing a different driver, you can tell Vista to upgrade the driver and then point it the folder where the driver is located.
 
Okay everyone I have some good news. I finally got my Huawei E620 working under Vista. I did a clean install of Vista and then loaded the brand new Vista Driver kit from Acer which was released in the last 2 days.

It definitely was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers that Vista loads by default, the custom Acer drivers for the PCMCIA slot actually work and recognised the card this time when I pointed it to the drivers.

I used the Huawei drivers and Huawei software which work 100% and are so much more light weight than Vodafone Mobile Connect has ever been. My advice .... if you can get correct PCMCIA drivers for your PCMCIA slot then use the Huawei software and be done with it instead of waiting for VMC 9.1. In fact all you actually need is the drivers available here http://www.nerve.org.za/graham/e620_driver_2.0.3.0.zip and you can set up the dialup connection manually and do not need any 3rd party software to go with it. Of course this applies to Huawei cards only !!!

So ....... the first culprit to look at is your PCMCIA driver !!!!

Anyone who has an Acer laptop or desktop can get the latest and correct Vista drivers from ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/pub/ They were released in the last day or two. Hows that for QUICK support for Vista. Not even 3 weeks or so since the official release ... pretty impressive compared to past OS releases which took sometimes 6-18 months before you could get drivers for your product.

Cheers
 
threegee said:
Okay everyone I have some good news. I finally got my Huawei E620 working under Vista. I did a clean install of Vista and then loaded the brand new Vista Driver kit from Acer which was released in the last 2 days.

It definitely was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers that Vista loads by default, the custom Acer drivers for the PCMCIA slot actually work and recognised the card this time when I pointed it to the drivers.

I used the Huawei drivers and Huawei software which work 100% and are so much more light weight than Vodafone Mobile Connect has ever been. My advice .... if you can get correct PCMCIA drivers for your PCMCIA slot then use the Huawei software and be done with it instead of waiting for VMC 9.1. In fact all you actually need is the drivers available here http://www.nerve.org.za/graham/e620_driver_2.0.3.0.zip and you can set up the dialup connection manually and do not need any 3rd party software to go with it. Of course this applies to Huawei cards only !!!

So ....... the first culprit to look at is your PCMCIA driver !!!!

Anyone who has an Acer laptop or desktop can get the latest and correct Vista drivers from ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/pub/ They were released in the last day or two. Hows that for QUICK support for Vista. Not even 3 weeks or so since the official release ... pretty impressive compared to past OS releases which took sometimes 6-18 months before you could get drivers for your product.

Cheers
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Are you using Vista x64?
 
Ooppps I should have mentioned I am using Vista X32 .... I am sure that X64 makes a difference to things. Well ... at least as far as Drivers goes.
 
threegee, the pcmcia driver that gave you problems; was that for a Ricoh pcmcia chip?
 
It was for a Texas Instruments PCMCIA slot. What laptop do you have? and have you checked the manufacturers FTP yet for updated Drivers? Some manufacturers are real slow in releasing drivers. Hope you get sorted on that.
 
threegee said:
It was for a Texas Instruments PCMCIA slot. What laptop do you have? and have you checked the manufacturers FTP yet for updated Drivers? Some manufacturers are real slow in releasing drivers. Hope you get sorted on that.
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It’s actually a PCMCIA adapter with a Ricoh chip, but some laptops use that chip as well. Vista x64 comes with the drivers, but for some reason Vista doesn't boot up with the adapter (XP was fine) after the drivers was installed. I think it is an IRQ conflict so I was hoping that new drivers will solve the problem.
 
I have a Novatel U740. What is needed to get this running on Windows Vista ? Any specific firmware updates ? I have the version (9.1) of VMC mentioned in an earlier post.
 
Where can i download the VMC 9.1 software and does this solve the E220 and vista problems?
 
I'm battling to understand this, is there or is there not a way of making a Huawei E220 work with Vista?

I spoke to Vodacom support earlier and they directed me to their website where there are downloads for Vista (www.vodacom.co.za/about/downloads/3g.jsp). There I see a download for the E620 but not one for the E220 (at least not one for a PC, there is one for a Mac), the lady assured me that the 74 MB download will also work with my E220 but from what I've read in this forum that is not the case.

Is there anybody who can clarify what's what?
 
Ok I got my U740 working in Vista. I updated the firmware to the latest available on the Vodacom website, and downloaded the latest VMC 9.1 from there as well.

Sweet !
 
Rhodan said:
Ok I got my U740 working in Vista. I updated the firmware to the latest available on the Vodacom website, and downloaded the latest VMC 9.1 from there as well.

Sweet !
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Was that for Vista x86 or Vista x64?
 
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