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Intro:
Due to the genius system of internet connection accessible here (berlin), the old provider ALICE connection must be switched to TCOM first, THEN some 7 days later, a VDSL2 modem *may* show up (we shall see).

In the meantime, the unlimited broadband provided by the O2 network with the stick above, gives a private IP to a Windows XP ICS machine, which then the router/free hotspot pulls internet information.

What seems to work with this weird stick normally:
1) Install the Mobile Connect Manager software (I believe this is Novatel or something) which is built-into the USB stick. That is totally 'idiot-proof'.
2) Then rename UIMain.exe to UIMain_O2.exe.
3) Install MWCONN
4) Then copy all the contents of the MWCONN folder into the Mobile Connect Manager folder. -> the only reason I do this or don't do this last step is because I was messing with renaming UMTS.EXE to UIMain.EXE, so when the stick is inserted on laptops MWCONN auto-launches. This worked well on two laptops.


Difficulty:
What I've noticed is MWCONN will simply not be running after awhile. This problem did not happen on a HP Omnibook 510 nor a Sager 5680 (Pentium M 1ghz and P4 3ghz respectively).

Symptoms, procedures:
The computer system is an Athlon XP at about 2.2Ghz. It starts up and autologs-in as Admin, then the script continues to run doing a 'switch user' to send it back to the Welcome Screen. The box is mostly headless.
As part of the startup script, it does a:

start "Switch User" %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

:: wait for other processes to complete loading...
sleep 20

:: *** USB Internet Stick (O2) section ***
:: Get the O2 stick switched to modem mode
start "ResetUSBStick" /D"C:\Program Files\Mobile Partner Manager" "C:\Program Files\Mobile Partner Manager\ResetCDROM.exe"

:: wait for the USB stick to switch from CDROM mode to regular wireless mode
sleep 10

:: start MWCONN dialer
start "MWCONN USB stick dialer" /ABOVENORMAL /D"C:\Program Files\Mobile Partner Manager" "C:\Program Files\Mobile Partner Manager\UMTS.exe"


Any ideas?

As a possible remedy, the startup script now runs the MWCONN app at /ABOVENORMAL priority.

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By the way, the O2-provided software on the stick is bad, actually. It always creates a dialup that enables Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Print Sharing. Turning these off, and the O2 software turns it back on! Plus it's bloaty.
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Also, do you have any idea how to permanently disable the fake CDROM software loader? Turned off Windows XP Auto-run, and changed the name of the EXE UIMain.exe to UIMain_O2.exe, so the stub-loader UIExec.exe cannot find it. Also figured out the application ResetCDROM.exe flips the USB stick over to broadband modem mode.
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That is all. Thank you.

Hello wireless_connection,

for permanent (reverseable) deactivating of the Stick-CD-Autorun Feature

on ZTE-Sticks use the following command in a console: AT+ZCDRUN=8 !

You may have to try it a few times, until it works (sometimes at first,

sometimes later)

On your other Problem, please explain it exactly once more in a few/less words

what the problem is or what isnt working!

Regards

Hammergott

Did you try this?
http://www.mwconn.info/wiki/index.php/Service_log

Maybe this could reveal a little bit more information about the problem.