Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
Hi, Thanks everyone for your help, I tried installing glib 2.18 but got a bunch of error messages... so I think I am done with 8.04 hardy, now wish me luck with 10.04 Alpha :-) K On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:36 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: ok thanks very much, I ran the git, but now I have the latest glib 2.16 for unbuntu, but the script asks for glib 2.18 ?? perhaps from redhat or debian?? any ideas on who I can get the autogen.sh to work, or modify the configure.ac to allow it to work with glib-2.0 v2.16 ?? I assume you don't require features only available in 2.18? Yes, the configure script lists 2.18 as required since it requires stuff from glib-2.18. I believe that is due to usage of g_set_error_literal() and possibly a few other things, which were only added in glib-2.18. glib 2.18 was released on 02-Sep-2008, so it's been around for quite a while. It predates ModemManager, actually. So it's not that unreasonable that ModemManager might depend new functionality provided by it. Dan see log attached, thanks, Keith. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jirka Klimes jkli...@redhat.com wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 17:26:21 Keith Smith wrote: 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... Current ModemManager resides on freedesktop.org Clone it using: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager Jirka ___ 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
Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:36 -0500, Keith Smith wrote: ok thanks very much, I ran the git, but now I have the latest glib 2.16 for unbuntu, but the script asks for glib 2.18 ?? perhaps from redhat or debian?? any ideas on who I can get the autogen.sh to work, or modify the configure.ac to allow it to work with glib-2.0 v2.16 ?? I assume you don't require features only available in 2.18? Yes, the configure script lists 2.18 as required since it requires stuff from glib-2.18. I believe that is due to usage of g_set_error_literal() and possibly a few other things, which were only added in glib-2.18. glib 2.18 was released on 02-Sep-2008, so it's been around for quite a while. It predates ModemManager, actually. So it's not that unreasonable that ModemManager might depend new functionality provided by it. Dan see log attached, thanks, Keith. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jirka Klimes jkli...@redhat.com wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 17:26:21 Keith Smith wrote: 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... Current ModemManager resides on freedesktop.org Clone it using: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager Jirka ___ 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
Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
ok thanks very much, I ran the git, but now I have the latest glib 2.16 for unbuntu, but the script asks for glib 2.18 ?? perhaps from redhat or debian?? any ideas on who I can get the autogen.sh to work, or modify the configure.ac to allow it to work with glib-2.0 v2.16 ?? I assume you don't require features only available in 2.18? see log attached, thanks, Keith. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jirka Klimes jkli...@redhat.com wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 17:26:21 Keith Smith wrote: 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... Current ModemManager resides on freedesktop.org Clone it using: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager Jirka a...@anna:/usr/src/ModemManager$ sudo /usr/src/ModemManager/autogen.sh configure.ac: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac: installing `./missing' marshallers/Makefile.am: installing `./compile' marshallers/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... no checking for xlf... no checking for f77... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for cf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for xlf90... no checking for f90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for pghpf... no checking for epcf90... no checking for gfortran... no checking for g95... no checking for xlf95... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for ifort... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for ftn... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static
Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
On Saturday 09 January 2010 17:26:21 Keith Smith wrote: 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... Current ModemManager resides on freedesktop.org Clone it using: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager Jirka ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
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
Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0
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
