Hi there, I need some help - I think I have tried most of the solutions available for slitaz without any luck. My modem is not recognized in any of my 4 USB ports, that is - it is by lsusb, and by dsmesg but as storage device, same goes for lsmod. But when it comes to 3G modem setup it doesn't find the modem.

My modem works fine in Peppermint One, after installing Usb_modeswitch and doing this:

Instructions:

1. Insert your Huawei USB.
2. From a terminal window, type:

lsusb

hit Enter and you should see an output like this:

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1bcf:0007 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

3. The output will show the vendor ID and the product ID (12d1 and 1001 in the above example - it might be different on your machine) .

4. Create a udev rule by typing

gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/15-huawei-e620.rules

I named my file 15-huawei-e620.rules because that's what lsusb showed from no. 2 then copy+paste the code below:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idProduct}=="1001",SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1",RUN+="/lib/udev/modem-modeswitch --vendor 0x12d1 --product 0x1001 --type option-zerocd"

Just be sure to replace (if necessary) the correct values you got for your product and vendor IDs.
Save the file and type exit to close the terminal window.

5. Safely remove the USB drive then reinsert.

6. In my machine, the Gnome network manager didn't automatically detect my USB, so I had to create a new Mobile Broadband connection manually. Just right-click on the network manager icon, choose Edit Connections, go to Mobile Broadband, and click Add.
 
This works like a charm on Peppermint but doesn't work in Slitaz, which I like better because my laptop don't have so much Ram, or fast CPU.

These are the things I tried:

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/2206/usb-3g-modem-cant-find-it-in-devtty/

With the limitation of grep, for which I could not get installed. Neither could I get modprobe option to give me a reply.

Also I couldn't get the sakis3g script to run, hough I followed this guide to the dot:

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/2273/the-sakis3g-attempt-working/p1

I even tried this:

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:cricket-a600

But flipflop.sh wouldn't run. In xterm I got this error:

#sh flipflop.sh not found

Anyone have a complete guide without links to other sites so you have to guess how to do it? I'm not a newbie to computers but I am to Linux, I have tried many distro's to find one that would run on my laptop taking minimum system resources.

Puppy Linux is good, but limited in the way you can install other programs. Basically all ubuntu derivaties are too heavy. Peppermint One is ok but still too slow sometimes.
DSL don't work well on this laptop.

Slitaz is the one I like best now. So I really like to get my USB modem working.

Hope someone can help:)

JBJ