Huawei UMG181 USB on Red Hat

[jim75]

The T-Mobile Web Connect USB Stick, mobile broadband 3G device for laptops, a Huawei UMG181, works on ubuntu without any modification. Does anyone know how to make it work on Red Hat 4? Red Hat recognized it as a mass storage device but not as a modem in addition.

[coopstah13]

I would doubt very much that you could get it to run on such an old distro (even assuming it is RHEL4 and not just red hat 4). The difference in kernel versions between a recent Ubuntu and this is quite a bit. You will have to upgrade the kernel, which might not be a good idea.

[jim75]

Thanks for a quick response.
You're right, we are running with RHEL4 and 2.6.9 core.
Don't you think the latest kernel may help?

[coopstah13]

It will certainly help, but just know that things might break, and kernel will no longer be maintained by package manager, meaning that you will be responsible for security updates. Any reason you are using RHEL4 on a personal computer? If you like red hat, you should try their desktop distro fedora.