On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:45, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > For 3G devices this could be a number of things. If the device simply > isn't seen by NM, that means that ModemManager didn't successfully probe > the device. So we need to look for it there. This sounds like the case some of the time
> If this happens when the device disconnects, it could be that the > device's firmware is crashing and its dropping off the USB bus. That's > odd and indicates firmware problems, some of which we can work around in > ModemManager. Other times the device is just screwed and needs a > firmware update. If the device isn't recognized at *boot* time, that > could indicate either kernel problems, device problems, or possibly udev > issues. Sometimes it's recognized and others it's not. Is it possible that the device is left in some half-set state or is hanging and that prevents it from being probed? > When the device isn't found, lets get some 'dmesg' output from the > kernel to see if the device is actually getting loaded correctly. Also > see if the device's ports are present in /dev/. I don't have the output to hand, but I do remember checking and finding that the kernel did see it and the sierra driver was loaded for it. lsusb also showed it as present. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
