Hi, Thanks for the tip. I am a bit new to git, I see the "mainline" is only Dec 9 2008 http://gitorious.org/modemmanager/mainline Will that be sufficient update to solve my problem? I am currently running 0.0 modem manager 2008 11 26...
In mean time I will repartition my hard disk and try out Ubuntu 9.10 "netbook remix" http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook Thanks, K On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:10 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Great info, ok I have the modem showing up in Network Manager under >> the "Mobile BroadBand" section >> (only after sending the "usb_modeswitch" to change to the VID 0x1199 >> and PID 0x0025 ) >> >> I then tried disabling my WiFi routers and selecting the CDMA >> device... however it fails to "activate" see attached debug logs... >> >> interesting <info> message is Network Manager detects that /ttyUSB0 >> is CDMA device from 'sierra' ..... looks like a good start.... > > The "device is connected" problem was fixed recently in ModemManager > git. You'll want to get a newer version of MM or ask your distro to > update it. Specifically, I believe that something forgot to set the > serial port "connected" flag back to FALSE when the device was disabled > or disconnected. > > Dan > >> ok looks like the broadcom "wl" drivers will be ready in distro >> 10.04... right now the only thing going for this netbook is that the >> WiFi is working very well, so potentially having that fail in 9.x is >> too much risk for the moment... :-( >> >> BTW, I added a DNSsuperseed of OpenDNS to make sure that >> resolve.conf always has at least 1 OpenDNS entry. Then the only >> thing left to configure is the routing tables... which come from pppd >> in command line.... >> >> Thanks for any/all help you can provide! >> K >> >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> 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. >> > >> > So you might have some problems there; Ubuntu doesn't usually update >> > software in their stable versions, preferring to backport patches. And >> > of course 8.04 is pretty old now, so it's unlikely to receive a ton of >> > attention. >> > >> > NetworkManager 0.7.2 and 0.8 work quite a lot better with modems than >> > what got shipped in Ubuntu 8.04, but it may not be possible to build >> > 0.7.2 on your system. >> > >> >> 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? >> > >> > We'd need some logs from NetworkManager (and I guess modem-manager) in >> > that case to figure out what's going on. The version of NM/MM shipped >> > in 8.04 is pretty diverged from upstream as Ubuntu did some heavy >> > customization on it, but it might be possible to figure out what's going >> > on. First off, you'll want to make sure that modem-manager is actually >> > finding the modem. I think even in that older version of MM you can run >> > MM with "--debug" to get more information out of it. >> > >> > That version of NM/MM used HAL .fdi files to identify devices, so if the >> > device isn't also listed in the .fdi files NM/MM won't be able to see >> > it. Check that first; use dpkg -L to get a list of the files in the >> > NetworkManager and ModemManager packages and see if anything is >> > under /usr/share/hal/. Then poke around there and see if adding the USB >> > IDs for your Sierra device helps. Be careful to only tag ports that >> > actually are AT-capable serial ports with IS-707-A. Let me know how it >> > goes. >> > >> > Dan >> > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list