Comments on: Getting O2 Mobile Broadband (HUAWEI E160 adapter) to work in Windows 7

By: m@

m@ — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:13:05 +0000

wow, awesome … I was fiddling with that for hours – thanks to Paul, James and Ed who rescued my day.

By: Phil Mulligan

Phil Mulligan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:02:12 +0000

Thanks for this Paul – and thanks also to Ed (comment 5). I needed all this info to persuade 64-bit win7 to install the driver properly.

By: Adam Leyton

Adam Leyton — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:08:23 +0000

Brilliant, have been struggling with this for a while and I’m all sorted again now. Thanks very much! Now all I need to do is stop O2 from disconnecting my SIM if I don’t use it for six months…

By: Graham Burton

Graham Burton — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:49:01 +0000

Many thanks, Paul.
Have been struggling like mad with my O2 E160 since moving to W7 64b. Use an unlocked one every year in south Africa with local Vodacom, really essential.
Followed your complete procedure and Bingo! Finds both my O2 and 3Uk sims. just hope SA Vodacom is good too.
Great stuff, Graham

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:26:58 +0000

Sire, you are a genius. Many thanks you have just saved me some hours of fruitless fumbling.

By: Julian Mildren

Julian Mildren — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:05:07 +0000

If it’s any help, just downloaded the driver from the O2 website today, and followed their instructions. Sure enough, after inserting the dongle, nothing happened, and three instances of software not installed appeared. Being a firm beliver in switch off and have a cup of tea, and a read of Paul’s excellent instructions, I restarted, and voila it worked without any help from me! – I’m running Windows 7 Professional 64bit – dare I venture that O2 have finally sorted this out?

By: Martin Corner

Martin Corner — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:29:49 +0000

Many Thanks guys, followed Ed’s post and it now works!!!!!!!!!!!

Cannot thank you enough, was having to dual boot XP when I was out the office

Greatly appreciated

Martin

By: Al

Al — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:40:09 +0000

Thanks all, I had to try this a couple of times and hit scan for hardware changes on some unrecognised composite devices but it got there eventually! Much appreciated.

By: Raed

Raed — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:25:54 +0000

Thanks matey, until I cam across your post I was pulling my hair out

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:45:44 +0000

Thanks for this, it even worked with my T mobile E160
dongle on Windows 7 32bit using T Mobile web n walk software, the
folder directories are a little different. i just uninstalled the
mass storage in device manager, ran driver setup.exe, works fine
now.