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Getting the Huawei E169G to work on Win7

  • 08-01-2010 12:17AM
    #1
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've been using Three Mobile's E169G modem on my XP laptop with no issues.

    I recently got a Win7-based laptop and it can't seem to connect on it at all - it won't autoplay the software when I plug it in and when I manually download and install the software myself it won't detect the modem to connect.

    Does anyone know if there's a firmware upgrade out there from Three Ireland to fix this?

    Thanks,

    Adam


Comments

  • #2
    Kbeg3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Kbeg3


    I'm using it fine with Windows 7 64bit. Have you tried connecting just using Windows?


  • #3
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    This is a 32bit install but my big laptop has a 64bit and doesn't seem to fare any better.

    Would you be able to tell me how to connect just using Windows? When I plug it in it only shows up in the Devices folder as an optical drive with a yellow exclamation point (the USB mass storage seems to be working fine according to this but it's not showing up as a USB drive).

    Can't seem to find it in my network preferences to get it to connect by itself.

    Thanks.


  • #4
    Kbeg3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Kbeg3


    To connect with Windows I just go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Connect to a Network. Its listed as 3 USB Modem under Dial Up and VPN.

    Hope you get this sorted:)


  • #5
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Thanks for that but no such luck; only networks that showed up were wifi ones - not even a VPN/Dial Up category appeared in the list.


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