Vodafone modem installation problem.

[w1z4rd]

I got myself one of these modems and it installed fine on my computer. I got 2 more for family members and on the one laptop the device installed fine. The other laptop however is an issue.

Its one of those Acer Ferrari laptops with an AMD chipset. Make of the laptop is apparently "ferrari 3400"

When I install the software after a while (like with the other PC`s) the drivers install. With the other machines the software on the modem would autorun and install the rest of the required files.

This install just seems to install the basic drivers for the huawei e220 modem, and it seems to install the cd-drive and such, but the part where the EULA pops up... never pops up.

Also my virtual cd-drive I see the VClite software, I dont with my family members laptop. We just cant seem to get to the point where the laptop picks up the software on the modem.

I think it might be a problem with the USB, but I am not 100% sure. Any suggestions?

 

[vodacom3g]

I got myself one of these modems and it installed fine on my computer. I got 2 more for family members and on the one laptop the device installed fine. The other laptop however is an issue.

Its one of those Acer Ferrari laptops with an AMD chipset. Make of the laptop is apparently "ferrari 3400"

When I install the software after a while (like with the other PC`s) the drivers install. With the other machines the software on the modem would autorun and install the rest of the required files.

This install just seems to install the basic drivers for the huawei e220 modem, and it seems to install the cd-drive and such, but the part where the EULA pops up... never pops up.

Also my virtual cd-drive I see the VClite software, I dont with my family members laptop. We just cant seem to get to the point where the laptop picks up the software on the modem.

I think it might be a problem with the USB, but I am not 100% sure. Any suggestions?

Quite a few posts here that can help but in summary.

- Make sure you have the latest BIOS / USB drivers.

- Check that nothing in trying to 'manage' the flash drive. Typical culprits include virus and DVD writing software.

- Check that you don't have any drive letters that might clash with the drive letter the modem wants to create.

 

[w1z4rd]

Quite a few posts here that can help but in summary.

- Make sure you have the latest BIOS / USB drivers.

- Check that nothing in trying to 'manage' the flash drive. Typical culprits include virus and DVD writing software.

- Check that you don't have any drive letters that might clash with the drive letter the modem wants to create.

I think its a drive clash, for some reason the pc installs a removable drive in drive E.. but the drive cant to anything and if i remove it, it just installs itself again on a software refresh. I have no idea as to its purpose. It doesnt do anything and the drive manager shows no information other than the drive letter.

When I put the modem in, I noticed that the drive manager kept saying "connecting to logical drive", and just kinda hung there. If I removed the modem the drive manager would work. I did disable the funny drive E... but that did not solve my problem either.

I will try find if their are usb specific drivers for that laptop on the morrow.

 

[V!nc3nZ0]

I have seen a few problems when installing E220's on pc's that have networked drives...assign a different drive letter to the E220..this normally helps in that specific instance