On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 06:01:19PM +0000, Read, James C wrote:
Hi,
I just installed 5.8, I know my dongle is detected and correctly switched to
the right mode because
a) I can see in dmesg output that the device is detected and labelled ugen0
b) I can see the led light continuously on the dongle, this only happens in
other environments I've used the dongle in when the dongle is no longer in
mass storage mode (light flashes when in mass storage mode)
However, when I ifconfig I get nothing.
What gives?
0x00
A full dmesg output, or at least an indication of what model the dongle is
would be useful here.
The older Huawei dongles appear as serial ports, modern ones will appear as
a network adaptor.
But they do funky things like presenting themselves first as a CD-ROM device
until they are, 'ejected', then re-presenting as a different device with
different USB IDs.
There are even AT commands to configure which aspects of the functionality
you want, (I.E. you can disable the built in driver CD emulation, stop it
working with mainstream operating systems, and optimise it for OpenBSD by
eliminating the USB connect-disconnect-reconnect cycle).
I've done all of this with various Huawei dongles, until they blew up and
stopped working due to low production quality, (in my opinion).
Unfortunately, without more information on YOUR dongle, (which would come
from a dmesg, and/or usbdevs output), I can't give you any specific advice.
--
Tati Chevron
Perl and FORTRAN specialist.
SWABSIT development and migration department.
http://www.swabsit.com
