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Old May 8th 18, 11:18 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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One thing that does seem to have gone south since installing Win10 1803,
is my Huawei E3372 dongle, I did have a hell of a job getting drivers
for it installed in "stick mode" rather than "hilink mode", but now it
just sits there making the PnP unplugged noise every few seconds

I guess I'll have to retrace my steps on how what finally worked a few
months ago ...

I gather rs5 will have a re-vamped stack for mobile broadband, maybe
that will play nice with a generic Microsoft driver, rather than the
mess of manufacturer abandoned drivers?

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Old May 8th 18, 07:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Andy Burns wrote:

One thing that does seem to have gone south since installing Win10 1803,
is my Huawei E3372 dongle, I did have a hell of a job getting drivers
for it installed in "stick mode" rather than "hilink mode", but now it
just sits there making the PnP unplugged noise every few seconds

I guess I'll have to retrace my steps on how what finally worked a few
months ago ...

I gather rs5 will have a re-vamped stack for mobile broadband, maybe
that will play nice with a generic Microsoft driver, rather than the
mess of manufacturer abandoned drivers?


Not everyone here (amongst those who read and might respond) know what
is a "Huawei E3372". When you said "4G USB stick" in the subject, I
thought you were discussing a USB flash memory stick. Nope, you're
discussing a cellular (2G/3G/LTE) USB stick which might also have wi-fi
connectivity (their description and their manual is unclear since, for
example, they never mention if it uses 2.4 or 5 GHz or both)

So what happens when you uninstall the device, do remnant registry and
file cleanup, and reinstall its software? Also, make sure you configure
Windows 10 to *not* automatically update the drivers. Stop having
Microsoft break what is already working (well, for the drivers -- can't
do anything about what Microsoft changes in Windows 10).

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobile-broadband/e3372/
Oh wow, now that was a very detailed product description ... NOT! A
search on "e3372" on their support page is worthless.

"Support for LTE category 4 on the E3372 dongle from Huawei means you
can enjoy faster Wi-Fi download rates, up to an incredible 150 Mbps."

Oh, wi-fi support, really. On which band? 2.4GHz or 5GHz or both?
They are so flaky and incomplete in their description and documentation
that it is unclear if they think "wi-fi" means "cellular".

I found an online manual at:
https://usermanual.wiki/Huawei-Techn...uick-Start/pdf

Did you check the SIM card is fully seated inside the USB dongle?
Remove and reinsert a couple time to wipe the contacts. It mentions a
"management program" so the device requires software gets installed.
Tis not new that Windows 10 updates end up crippling some software.
Uninstall and reinstall to see if you get the device working again.
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Old May 8th 18, 08:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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VanguardLH wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

One thing that does seem to have gone south since installing Win10 1803,
is my Huawei E3372 dongle


Not everyone here (amongst those who read and might respond) know what
is a "Huawei E3372". When you said "4G USB stick" in the subject, I
thought you were discussing a USB flash memory stick.


No I didn't mean 4GB, I meant 4G

Nope, you're discussing a cellular (2G/3G/LTE) USB stick


Here mobile data is called 3G or 4G, more often than LTE

which might also have wi-fi
connectivity (their description and their manual is unclear since, for
example, they never mention if it uses 2.4 or 5 GHz or both)


No WiFi

So what happens when you uninstall the device, do remnant registry and
file cleanup, and reinstall its software?


Its software? Hah they seem to hide that, removed HUAWEI drivers and now
some MS drivers seem to have 'taken over' the card, at least that's
stopped it looping PnP plug/unplug/plug/unplug

Also, make sure you configure
Windows 10 to *not* automatically update the drivers. Stop having
Microsoft break what is already working (well, for the drivers -- can't
do anything about what Microsoft changes in Windows 10).


I don't think you get much choice about updating drivers when upgrading
from 1709 to 1803

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobile-broadband/e3372/
Oh wow, now that was a very detailed product description ... NOT! A
search on "e3372" on their support page is worthless.


Yep, they seem to assume you will use it in "hilink mode" where it looks
like an virtual ethernet router on the stick, but I prefer "stick mode"
where it's like a ndis card

"Support for LTE category 4 on the E3372 dongle from Huawei means you
can enjoy faster Wi-Fi download rates, up to an incredible 150 Mbps."

Oh, wi-fi support, really. On which band? 2.4GHz or 5GHz or both?


None

They are so flaky and incomplete in their description and documentation
that it is unclear if they think "wi-fi" means "cellular".

I found an online manual at:
https://usermanual.wiki/Huawei-Techn...uick-Start/pdf

Did you check the SIM card is fully seated inside the USB dongle?


It doesn't get as far as loading the correct drivers, the SIM card will
be fine once it does, it was ok a few weeks ago

Remove and reinsert a couple time to wipe the contacts. It mentions a
"management program" so the device requires software gets installed.
Tis not new that Windows 10 updates end up crippling some software.
Uninstall and reinstall to see if you get the device working again.


As I said, I'll plough through all the stuff I downloaded a few weeks
ago, to get it working first time, the thing is I downloaded *such* a
lot of drivers before hitting on the right one (I think from Lenovo who
offer an internal HUAWEI 4G card) that I can't exactly be sure what did
the trick.



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Old May 9th 18, 04:19 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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VanguardLH wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

One thing that does seem to have gone south since installing Win10 1803,
is my Huawei E3372 dongle


Not everyone here (amongst those who read and might respond) know what
is a "Huawei E3372". When you said "4G USB stick" in the subject, I
thought you were discussing a USB flash memory stick.


No I didn't mean 4GB, I meant 4G


I can understand the confusion. A lot of technically illiterate people (and
I'm sure you're not!) tend to omit the "B" and refer to a memory card as
"4G", "64 G", "128 G" etc.

Vanguard evidently saw "4G USB stick" and interpreted it wrongly as "4GB USB
memory stick" :-) Nowadays you'd be lucky to be able to buy a memory stick
with as little memory as 4GB, which should have given the game away.

Having said that, I still have a 4GB memory stick from a few years ago that
I use to carry around installation EXE files for (free) applications that I
install for people, to save me having to download a fresh copy over the
internet if they have very slow broadband. I should probably treat myself to
a newer, larger memory stick so I don't have to be selective with what I
copy to it, and in case the present stick starts to develop faults because I
believe the NAND gates in memory sticks have a finite number of 0-to-1 and
1-to-0 transitions that they can make.

 




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