pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> writes: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :) >> >> I'm trying to get the internal 3g modem to work in my Dell laptop >> running guix. >> […] >> I think this is the internal modem device: >> >> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:81b6 Dell Computer Corp. DW5811e Snapdragon⢠>> X7 LTE > > ModemManager has a list of supported devices. Your modem is not > listed there, but older similar modems “Should work”, it says. Did it > work on another distro before? > > I have no experience with dial-up modems, but apparently ppp can be > used somehow to connect with those. Network-manager can be made to > use ppp, but I do not know if that works in Guix right now.
Good point. I booted up a live ubuntu 18.08.3 disk and it detected the modem and just worked. I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot this further. I'll have a think about it.