On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:44 -0600, Jerone Young wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 19:54 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get my Sierra Wireless 598 CDMA USB modem to work. > > I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) which came preloaded on Dell mini > > Inspiron 1210 (like a netbook) > > I cannot (easily) upgrade the kernel or distro due to custom Dell > > hardware kernel drivers (WiFi driver "wl" is proprietary). > > I am using dual boot (DOS/XP/Ubuntu) with GRUB 1.0 in the MBR, don't > > want to upgrade to GRUB2 (comes with Ubuntu 8.10) since I have a > > working freedos bootable USB drive with GRUB1 for dos installer (just > > in case). > > I believe that Ubunutu 9.x fully supports the Sierra Wireless 598 out > > of the box... cannot upgrade as stated above. > > The "wl" driver is actually apart of Ubuntu. We are working to making > the installation of it seemless in the 10.04 release. > > Though what you can do is move to Ubuntu 9.10. Then connect the It via > ethernet. Then go to System->Hadware Drivers . This will then grab the > driver from the net and install it. A reboot and your ready to go. You > can also try this with a live session. > > Also this thread may help (comment #6): > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824931 > > > The "wl" driver is actually a product of Broadcom, who currently does > not have a completely open driver. Though work is being done to make it > easier to deal with.
Sigh. Or Canonical could put some effort behind the upstream b43 driver to get N-PHY support completed. Somebody is actually working on N-PHY now too, so maybe you guys can just wait and let somebody else do the work. While continuing to ship a binary driver that you can't possibly fix when users have problems with it. Dan > > > > I have upgraded to the latest released Network Manager 0.7.0 and > > Modem Manager 0.0+20081126t163712.bf522e3.mbm.f2-0ubuntu2 > > using apt-get etc. > > I have downloaded, compiled and installed the latest Sierra Wireless > > driver (v.1.7.8) for my kernel (2.6.24) > > > > USB connects fine on Windows XP computer, device is activated. > > Kernel: 2.6.24-22-lpia > > > > I am able to connect to internet using the following: > > > > 1) plug into any USB slot, kernel detects device, ignores tru-install > > > > 2) I run usb_modeswitch to change from "mass storage" to "modem" > > kernel then detects it is Sierra Modem (dmesg) > > /ttyUSB0 to /ttyUSB4 devices are available > > 3) wvdial into /dev/ttuUSB0 > > 4) pppd > > 5) manually adding required routes to routing table (local IP, remote > > IP, and gateway) > > 6) manually adding DNS entries in /etc/resolve.conf > > > > I can script items 1 to 4, but have trouble with 5 and 6 because > > Network manager will overwrite them... > > > > Now I understand there is a plug-in mechanism to add USB BroadBand > > Mobile devices to network manager, by copying existing examples...I > > will need help to find and configure them... > > > > Since the kernel does not detect the USB modem without sending > > usb_modeswitch... is there any hope to getting network manager to work > > with a D-Bus signal/message? > > > > Thanks, > > Keith. > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list