On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:10 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: > Hello! > > Great info, ok I have the modem showing up in Network Manager under > the "Mobile BroadBand" section > (only after sending the "usb_modeswitch" to change to the VID 0x1199 > and PID 0x0025 ) > > I then tried disabling my WiFi routers and selecting the CDMA > device... however it fails to "activate" see attached debug logs... > > interesting <info> message is Network Manager detects that /ttyUSB0 > is CDMA device from 'sierra' ..... looks like a good start....
The "device is connected" problem was fixed recently in ModemManager git. You'll want to get a newer version of MM or ask your distro to update it. Specifically, I believe that something forgot to set the serial port "connected" flag back to FALSE when the device was disabled or disconnected. Dan > ok looks like the broadcom "wl" drivers will be ready in distro > 10.04... right now the only thing going for this netbook is that the > WiFi is working very well, so potentially having that fail in 9.x is > too much risk for the moment... :-( > > BTW, I added a DNSsuperseed of OpenDNS to make sure that > resolve.conf always has at least 1 OpenDNS entry. Then the only > thing left to configure is the routing tables... which come from pppd > in command line.... > > Thanks for any/all help you can provide! > K > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 19:54 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am trying to get my Sierra Wireless 598 CDMA USB modem to work. > >> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) which came preloaded on Dell mini > >> Inspiron 1210 (like a netbook) > >> I cannot (easily) upgrade the kernel or distro due to custom Dell > >> hardware kernel drivers (WiFi driver "wl" is proprietary). > >> I am using dual boot (DOS/XP/Ubuntu) with GRUB 1.0 in the MBR, don't > >> want to upgrade to GRUB2 (comes with Ubuntu 8.10) since I have a > >> working freedos bootable USB drive with GRUB1 for dos installer (just > >> in case). > >> I believe that Ubunutu 9.x fully supports the Sierra Wireless 598 out > >> of the box... cannot upgrade as stated above. > > > > So you might have some problems there; Ubuntu doesn't usually update > > software in their stable versions, preferring to backport patches. And > > of course 8.04 is pretty old now, so it's unlikely to receive a ton of > > attention. > > > > NetworkManager 0.7.2 and 0.8 work quite a lot better with modems than > > what got shipped in Ubuntu 8.04, but it may not be possible to build > > 0.7.2 on your system. > > > >> I have upgraded to the latest released Network Manager 0.7.0 and > >> Modem Manager 0.0+20081126t163712.bf522e3.mbm.f2-0ubuntu2 > >> using apt-get etc. > >> I have downloaded, compiled and installed the latest Sierra Wireless > >> driver (v.1.7.8) for my kernel (2.6.24) > >> > >> USB connects fine on Windows XP computer, device is activated. > >> Kernel: 2.6.24-22-lpia > >> > >> I am able to connect to internet using the following: > >> > >> 1) plug into any USB slot, kernel detects device, ignores tru-install > >> > >> 2) I run usb_modeswitch to change from "mass storage" to "modem" > >> kernel then detects it is Sierra Modem (dmesg) > >> /ttyUSB0 to /ttyUSB4 devices are available > >> 3) wvdial into /dev/ttuUSB0 > >> 4) pppd > >> 5) manually adding required routes to routing table (local IP, remote > >> IP, and gateway) > >> 6) manually adding DNS entries in /etc/resolve.conf > >> > >> I can script items 1 to 4, but have trouble with 5 and 6 because > >> Network manager will overwrite them... > >> > >> Now I understand there is a plug-in mechanism to add USB BroadBand > >> Mobile devices to network manager, by copying existing examples...I > >> will need help to find and configure them... > >> > >> Since the kernel does not detect the USB modem without sending > >> usb_modeswitch... is there any hope to getting network manager to work > >> with a D-Bus signal/message? > > > > We'd need some logs from NetworkManager (and I guess modem-manager) in > > that case to figure out what's going on. The version of NM/MM shipped > > in 8.04 is pretty diverged from upstream as Ubuntu did some heavy > > customization on it, but it might be possible to figure out what's going > > on. First off, you'll want to make sure that modem-manager is actually > > finding the modem. I think even in that older version of MM you can run > > MM with "--debug" to get more information out of it. > > > > That version of NM/MM used HAL .fdi files to identify devices, so if the > > device isn't also listed in the .fdi files NM/MM won't be able to see > > it. Check that first; use dpkg -L to get a list of the files in the > > NetworkManager and ModemManager packages and see if anything is > > under /usr/share/hal/. Then poke around there and see if adding the USB > > IDs for your Sierra device helps. Be careful to only tag ports that > > actually are AT-capable serial ports with IS-707-A. Let me know how it > > goes. > > > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
