Re: NM 0.7 on Fedora 8 with 3G USB Modems

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:13 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Been reading through the list for details of the 3G modem support in
> Fedora8/NM. It seems like its almost there, and from my playing it
> seems like I've got it almost working :)
> 
> Its one of the seemingly infamous Huawei E220's and a bit of a search
> I got it ready to go, and added the problems I had to the RH BZ ticket
> here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253096 (I added a
> blacklist to the /etc/modprobe.d dir for the USB device).

Is that all sorted out now?  I seem to recall there was a bunch of
traffic on the E220 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List with patches to
make it work better.  Whether those patches have been incorporated into
the Fedora kernels already might make a difference.

> I then added the .fdi file mentioned on the list earlier in the month
> and restarted hal. NM now detects the modem but wouldn't connect. I
> first discovered that the NM ppp plugin in the F8 rpm was looking for
> /usr/lib64/NetworkManager/nm-pppd-plugin.so where as it was located in
> /usr/lib64. A quick symlink fixed that.

Which version of NM are you currently using?  The output of 'rpm -qv
NetworkManager' is what you want here.  There's been a few changes
recently in the plugin path of the ppp plugin.

> I've attached the relevent portion of /var/log/messages which includes
> a crash from NM as well. It looks like its almost successful but
> there's a selinux message although the system is configured for
> permissive (I think it might be a log).

I didn't see an attachment, can you resend?

dan

> Any ideas or details that I've missed. Is there any config needed that
> isn't in a GUI somewhere?
> 
> BTW The network is the Three network in the UK.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
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