My ancient Celeron 2GB laptop runs well with ceni on my wifi network. I also have a Huawei 3G USB modem, which also works well with umtsmon, until I enter init 1 to run smxi, when the modem connection dies. I've got by so far by running smxi only through my wifi network.
Is there an easy fix?
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init 1 is single user mode.

You don't have to do any init thing, just start it, then use console login, I don't know the default runlevel that uses for desktop.

From gdm/kdm just do: ctrl alt f1
login as root, run smxi. It stopped using the init 5-3 thing a long time ago, that was just something sidux said to do that wasn't necessary, just shorter to tell people.
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Sorry - I thought that Ctrl-Alt-F1 brought up init 1.
If I'm connected with umtsmon through my USB 3G modem, then do Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root and enter smxi, it shuts down X and tests for a connection. smxi finds no connection, so leads to the options to install wifi drivers. It seems to have lost the 3G connection at that point and I can't seem to run umtsmon without KDE.
I can get by at home, by logging on through my home router, but it stops me from using smxi, sgfxi etc. when it's away from wifi. It's only a small problem, but there should be some way of connecting without firing up KDE.
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you'll have to find a terminal tool to turn on networking. Check out /etc/init.d/networking start/stop, check out /etc/network/interfaces, check out the ceni tool if you have no wifi out of X.

ctrl alt F1-6 drops you into terminals 1-6, your X session is terminal 7, ie, ctrl alt f7, as you can see if you do: ctrl alt f1 then ctrl alt f7, usually the x session is 7.
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Greetings paleoflatus.
wvdial works for my huawei in or out of X

This is my /etc/wvdial.conf for 3 UK ("3internet" should be your provider's APN, AutoDNS = 0 if you use opendns, else 1) Similar may work for yours

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