Got myself a little Huawei E220 with my mail today. I had looked forward to an evening with fightning to get this started in Linux, but hell and crap. I have to stop using Linux now, everything is to easy. What to do now? I solved EVERYTHING with the latest stable deb from here. I just installed it with dpkg -i vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux_1.99.17_i386.deb and then I had to apt-get -f install to get some dependencies. So far, plug in the modem and wait a little while and watch dmesg and when it’s settled just start the Vodafone application.
You can send SMS, choose pin code, stop it from wanting pin code and so on. No problems what so ever. Everything you can do with the application for Windows works. As far as I know. Go on, find it, use it!
Lovely but boring. 