On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 03:12 +0530, [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >         On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 01:50 +0530, [email protected]
> > >         wrote:
> > >         > Hi list,
> > >         >
> > >         > I had called my Mobile broadband provider Reliance to file a
> > >         complaint
> > >         > against the speed issues I am having with my internet
> > >         connection. I am
> > >         > having a 3.1 Mbps connection but end up getting about 0.1
> > >         Mbps at
> > >         > times.
> > >
> > >
> > >         Could be the device, or it could be that a ton of people are
> > >         in your
> > >         sector/tower using data at the same time
> > >
> > >         > The first question the customer care guys ask is that in
> > >         what mode is
> > >         > your device currently connected - High speed or CDMA 1X?
> > >         > Apparently, Folks at Reliance give away their own dialer to
> > >         connect to
> > >         > Internet in Windows and that software shows the current mode
> > >         of the
> > >         > connection.
> > >         >
> > >         > So I tell the customer care guy that I am using Linux
> > >         (Fedora 15,
> > >         > Gnome 3) and I do not know what connection mode is being
> > >         used. So they
> > >         > tell me to please check in some other Windows based system.
> > >         I know it
> > >         > is insane but one can't argue with a non-tech customer care
> > >         guy on
> > >         > such issues. They talk to me as if the problem is in my
> > >         Linux system -
> > >         > It is selecting the low speed mode.
> > >         >
> > >         > Is there any way to find out which mode is getting selected
> > >         - 1X or
> > >         > High speed? The device in use in Huawei EC1260.
> > >
> > >
> > >         It should be handled by ModemManager and NetworkManager in
> > >         Fedora 15
> > >         already; it appears that MM is not able to find a second port
> > >         to query
> > >         for the current access technology (ie EVDO vs. 1X).  Here are
> > >         some steps
> > >         you can do to help isolate the issue:
> > >
> > >         in a root terminal:
> > >
> > >         1) mv /usr/sbin/modem-manager /
> > >         2) killall -TERM modem-manager
> > >         3) /modem-manager --debug
> > >         4) connect, wait 30 seconds or so, and copy the output from
> > >         the terminal
> > >         running modem-manager into a reply to this mail
> > >
> > >         To get back:
> > >         1) Ctrl+C to kill modem-manager
> > >         2) mv /modem-manager /usr/sbin/modem-manager
> > >
> > >         and you should be good.
> > >
> > >         Dan
> > >
> > >         > Can I send some AT commands to ttyUSB0 to check? Could you
> > >         please help
> > >         > me with this?
> > >         >
> > >         > Also I do not get a signal strength indication in the
> > >         NetworkManager
> > >         > icon. I get four bars but no color. Is this by design?
> > >         >
> > >         > Thanks,
> > >         > Elison
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I work at a city 100 Km from my home and face the problem at home
> > > only. I go home only on weekends so will send you the output this
> > > weekend.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can I just replace the binary modem-manager with a simple script and
> > > rename it to modem-manager?
> > >
> > >
> > > 0) cd /usr/sbin
> > > 1) mv modem-manager orig.modem-manager
> > > 2) Create a script /usr/sbin/modem-manager :
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > ./orig.modem-manager --debug $* > /home/username/modem.log
> > >
> >
> > Sure, that works too.
>
> One more thing; 'lsusb -v' output for the device would also be useful.
>
> Dan
>
>
> Hi,
I have not taken the debug as I think this is a GNOME 3 issue. I used the
same device in Fedora 13 and Knoppix 6.7 and the taskbar icon shows 1X or EV
according to the network mode selected.

Best Regards,
Elison
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