Not exactly vintage but a small problem with my mobile broadband.
My laptop Windows does not like my Huawei mobile LT1 wingle USB dongle any more.
Started doing this after the last Windows update.
Keep getting "last usb thing you plugged in is faulty" warning messages.
The dongle then may shut down, reboot and connect up normally again, and again, and again, and again, and again.................


Normally I would drop into Telstra and let them fix the thing by upgrading the chip thing, BUT, i'm self isolating and going no where.
Its a common problem discussed on the web and the "cure" is always to download some fix from some site.
Problem is that is invariably to down load some "driver manager" that takes over your laptop and roots it royally!

Has anybody found a OFFICIAL method to get the laptop to like the dongle?

Fred.

Can you do a driver roll-back?

Do you have another PC/Laptop to try the "who are we" dongle in?

Thanks guys will try a few things.
Fred.

Ok, I stopped thinking like a user and more like tech.

I found where they hide Device Manager in W10 and found the wawa dongle in the usb listing.
Then selected Update driver.
Fool computer thought about it, then reported that driver is fine.
Told it to FIND a driver in the big world outside.
FOUND a driver and it....what did it do?.f knows.
Then remembered this dumbarse W10 saves updates and only installs them when it feels like it , no option?
Anyway shut the thing down, rebooted, loaded updates...twice...and LO and BEHOLD the thing has shut up, no more insane device failed reports and obviously is working because i'm writing this on it!

Thanks for kicking me in the right way.
Fred.

A few driver checker/updaters are available online. Some free, some paid for. Colleague of mine has one of the paid for apps -- I forget its name -- and it works very well. (However, having been a user of Windows since 3.1, I am always leery of driver updates regardless of where they come from.)

GTC agreed, hate 5th party "update fixes". they fix the one problem you had and then you find 5 things that dont work anymore somewhere else!
Lets see how long this "driver update" lasts.
Fred.

Software is getting so incredibly complex because of the use of high level languages, scripts and constructs that obfuscate the underlying system.

There is a saying in development circles:

"You open it, it's broken"

The FOTABA effect: fix one thing and break another.