I got help from ubuntu-devel-discuss and found a way to enable modemmanager without network-manager:

$ cat /etc/init/modemmanager.override
start on starting dbus
stop on stopped dbus

This makes it depend on dbus instead of network-manger, which I think is the correct dependence.

On 07/28/2015 08:53 AM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:39 AM, João M. S. Silva
<joao.m.santos.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Aleksander.

I'm on Ubuntu so I tried this without success:

   jmss@aida:~$ sudo update-rc.d modemmanager defaults
   update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/modemmanager: file does not exist

Then I looked inside /etc/init/modemmanager.conf and saw:

   start on starting network-manager
   stop on stopped network-manager

Maybe I'm not running network-manager since this is a server without GUI?

Well, NetworkManager can be used in servers without GUI.

Check if it is installed, with e.g.:
$ dpkg -l | grep network



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