Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some
very useful things.
1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run wvdial
from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I was talking
about.
2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. This
results in every attempt to DIAL returning "ERROR" in a terminal program
such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR.
3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our
case something to the effect of "Error reading USIM card". Oh yeah an to
spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the Install
CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated CDROM -
Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-)
4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED
flashes indicating network availability (Windows & Linux), ONLY when the
SIM is inserted correctly.
Grant Parnell wrote:
0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.2 network management framework daemon
I'm missing something... I wanted to find out how to monitor what
NetworkManager's doing on Ubuntu 8.10.
Reason is we've just got a new 3G USB stick for the Three network. Model
is E180.
NetworkManager brilliantly detected the device and I went through the
wizard to setup and select the provider... all good. It *looks* like we
aren't getting a signal as we only get the green double flash of the LED.
After ringing Three and confirming that the device was activated at
their end we didn't really get any further... the usual "not a supported
OS" stuff.
About the only thing I haven't tried since the upgrade is running up
minicom on /dev/ttyUSB0 again.
In the bad old days of dialup analogue modems you could always tail -f
/var/log/messages and see all the modem chatter and easily spot the
problem. Darnit.. I wanna see the conversation.
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