Friday January 8th, 2010
I’ve been using a Huawei E169 3G stick on my laptop to access Internode’s NodeMobile wireless broadband services for a while now. The other day I got an error saying “the device has been disconnected or is unavailable”.
I’ve seen this error before, sometimes the USB port gets a bit confused and unplugging and re-plugging the device, or moving it to a new USB port. I have also occasionally had to reboot the machine to get it working.
This time it just wouldn’t work – I rebooted several times, tried a few different things, but could not make it recognise the device.
I Googled the error message and came up with a blog from China: Huawei E169G the device has been disconnected or is unavailable error … which gave me some other ideas to try – specifically, reloading the drivers.
I found the drivers for my device in C:\Program Files\Wireless Broadband\Driver … I ran the DriverSetup.exe program and then tried again and it worked.
Hopefully this post helps someone else if they have problems with their Huawei E169 stick too!
Friday January 8th, 2010
Today we headed up to Loxton with my parents to visit some of my aunts and my uncle who couldn’t make it down to Adelaide for our family afternoon-tea last week. We were happy to also see that my cousin and his family had managed to get away from the farm for a while to come and visit too, so it was great to catch up with everyone.
It was a long day, Andres slept most of the way there and most of the way back, so it was also a quiet drive (around 2 hours each direction).
Murray Bridge to Loxton
Thursday January 7th, 2010
I spent the day today (actually, the morning and evening – it was too hot after lunch), helping my parents build part of a fence at their place. It was mostly just assembling the steel railings and positioning the fence frame in preparation for screwing on the steel sheeting once it had been cemented in place.
Wednesday January 6th, 2010
Today we packed up most of our gear and drove down to Murray Bridge to my parents’ place to stay for a few days.
Mt Barker to Murray Bridge
The trip so far
Tuesday January 5th, 2010
We had planned a quiet day today, but I got a call last night from one of my close school friends from Murray Bridge who works fly-in-fly-out on some large construction projects up in the Kimberly region. They had just got back from holidays and he was flying out Wednesday morning for work, so if we were to catch up then it pretty much had to be today – we drove down after lunch to say hello.
Mt Barker to Murray Bridge
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