On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:00 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote: > David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi David, > > > I'm new to N-M, connecting to 3G net in Switzerland using a Huawei > > K3715 USB stick and Ubuntu 10.04. After the painful configuration > > process (I had to enter manually "vendor=0x12d1 product=140c" in the > > configuration file) everything works wonderful -- even better that the > > original software. > > Oh, I'm totally unable to get my Huawei E160 working. Could you please > provide those config files you have edited? Maybe that could help me.
Does the device have IDs in the 'option' driver? Any Huawei modems that are not driven by 'option' should get their IDs added to that kernel module so people don't need to hack it. Next, does your device need a modeswitch? Many modems have fake driver CDs and need to be flipped into modem mode by usb_modeswitch. If it's a new device, it may not have been added to usb_modeswitch yet. Recent versions of usb_modeswitch (1.1.3 and later at least) will automatically eject the fake CD for you via udev rules when you plug the device in. Most Huawei devices have these fake CDs. > > The only thing I miss is the option to save the pin number and > > auto-connect on startup. > > Hm, I use KNetworkManager, and in the Broadband Connection tab, there > are fields for the PIN, PUK, APN, etc. At least the PIN/PUK are saved > in the KDE keychain (kwallet). I guess it's the same when using > nm-applet, where those credentials should be stored in the GNOME > keyring. He's talking about something that's new in NM 0.8.1, likely. Immediately when the modem is plugged in and nm-applet notices that modem-manager needs a PIN code, nm-applet will ask you for that PIN code. Now here's the problem: the PIN is specific to the *SIM*, not the device. But most modems don't allow us to request the IMSI (the SIM's serial #) before we've entered the PIN, so we have no idea which PIN to use with this device. Chicken+egg problem really. There may be some ways to work around this (store the PIN with whatever attributes we *can* get from the device) and just do best-effort, asking the user when we can't figure it out. Needs to be written though. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
