I use the Option icon225 3G modem almost every day (whenever I am on the move, without wifi coverage), so it is always the first thing to make it work… also on the S101.

As posted some time ago, this device works excellent with any derivative of ubuntu, so I expected a fast setup.

Well… following the good old How-To posted at www.pharscape.org did not disappoint me… quickly…

After the install procedure the S101 connected to the net but after some minutes unexpectedly the machine was hard locked… no mouse, keyboard, whatsoever…

Looked like a nasty module, which froze the tiny EeePC… and it was easy to guess that something was wrong with the hso.ko module, which supposed to make the Option icon225 modem talk to the internet…

After some google homework I found out the stock ubuntu 8.10 does already contain the hso.ko module (apparently version 1.2) and I installed v 1.6

Something was dead wrong…

I discovered, that for some funny reason the original hso.ko module was in

…/kernel/drivers/net/usb/

while the newly compiled and installed v 1.6 was put into:

…/kernel/drivers/net/wwan/

Interesting… and the v 1.2 loaded and locked down the machine… So I removed the old one and run depmod… started again the HSOconnect program and waited some minutes… No lockup…

The good: the new HSOconnect does include already Hungarian localization…