HUAWEI dongle missing driver

kay0981

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Feb 12, 2014
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Hello everyone!

I have a HUAWEI dongle, model: E3231 on a Three network, and it's been working fine for a year now. All of the sudden it stopped working today. The light flashes green, but there is no internet connection, and my computer only is only barely picking it up.

Here is what I did so far:
1. I checked under 'Devices and Printers' in the Control Panel, and the dongle is being picked up as an 'Unspecified' device.
2. I ran the troubleshoot on it, which suggested that the driver for HUAWEI mobile is not installed. The attempt to install the missing driver for the dongle was unsuccessful.
3. I downloaded the Driver Manager program, and scanned the dongle with it - the results confirmed that the dongle is indeed missing a driver.
4. I checked the HUAWEI website for the drivers, and all they had was an update for the E3231-Ws model, and it was Mac-only anyway. Same goes to their Auto-Detect tool - it looked like a Mac installation, and I couldn't get it to run. I couldn't find the drivers for my dongle anywhere else...

Could anyone please help? I'm really stuck, and have no idea what caused the dongle to malfunction in the first place.
The exact dongle model is: HUAWEI E3231, here's the link to it:
http://www.huaweidevice.co.uk/mobile-broadband/Huawei-E3231-(Black)/

Thank you!
 
Remove the dongle, uninstall dongle software, delete any references to missing hardware in device manager, including any drivers.

Reboot, reinstall dongle software, plug the dongle in, system should detect new device.

Always best to use the same USB port for the dongle, to stop any conflicts.
 

kay0981

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Thank you for the suggestion, but that didn't work. I don't think it's a problem with my laptop, but with the dongle itself. I tried using the dongle on two different laptops, it doesn't work on either. Also, my friend also had a HUAWEI Three dongle, just an older version, and that works fine on my laptop...