Huawei E220, the device has been disconnected or is unavailable

Huawei USB modem didn't work in my Windows Vista laptop. my2cent blog helped me to resolve the issue. :)

You can download Huawei E220 Vista Firmware (v11.110.05.00.00) from the link below.

http://www.mobilebroadbandrocks.com/download/huawei-e220-vista-firmware-v11110050000

As in the screen shot below shows Device manager should list Huawei in the Modems section if the device has been correctly install in the machine.

Few days after writing this blog post I dicovered what is causing me this problem. It's VMWare. I uninstall that and now device works fine. :)

How to block a web site in Windows Vista

Sometimes you may need to block web site. You can easily achieve this by using Windows Hosts file. Hosts file is located in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC. Open that in Notepad. As an exaple if you want to block the site www.example.com include this lines at the bottom of the file.

127.0.0.1 example.com
127.0.0.1 www.example.com

You can find more information regarding this in gohacking