Hi Bjørn, On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 08:49:27PM +0100, Bjørn Bürger wrote: > Argh! Nevermind, just figured it out. > > It's actually documented in the original NEWS file, but it's > not very obvious to the user, why suddenly the modem disappears. > > This is the solution: > > ln -sft /etc/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d > /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d/* > > and it's also documented quite nicely on the modemmanager.org > website. Maybe debian should add a prominent Warning, because > this will break modemmanager heavily for a lot of non-technical > people:
Thanks for investigating! Since you know exactly what you were looking for do you want to draft something for NEWS.Debian / README.Debian and submit this at https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/modemmanager ? That would be great. Cheers, -- Guido > > ------------------------- cite from NEWS.gz --------------------------- > > ModemManager 1.18.4 > ------------------------------------------- > > * A new FCC unlock operation management via external scripts is introduced, > which will avoid to automatically unlock FCC locked devices unless the > user > has configured the operation manually, or unless an official > vendor-provided > FCC unlock tool is found in the system. > > Please refer to the following URL for full details: > https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/fcc-unlock/ > > The following changes should be taken into account by distribution > packagers: > ** A set of FCC unlock scripts named as the specific vendor 'vid' will be > installed in ${datadir}/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d. > ** A set of symlinks is created named as the specific device 'vid:pid', > and > pointing to the per-vendor 'vid' files, in the same location inside > ${datadir}. > ** A new ${sysconfdir}/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d directory is created, > where > users will manually install additional symlinks to the scripts shipped > in > ${datadir}. > ** A new ${libdir}/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d directory is created, where > vendors will install their own official FCC unlock tools. > ** Both fcc-unlock.d directories should be empty on a new install, and > their > contents (if any) should not be removed on ModemManager upgrades. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Have a nice weekend. > Bjørn > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-on-mobile-maintainers mailing list > debian-on-mobile-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-on-mobile-maintainers