Re: NM with CMOTECH CNU-680 / ice.net D-50

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 20:49 +0200, Peter Åstrand wrote:
> I'd like to use the CMOTECH CNU-680 
> (http://www.cmotech.com/english/products/pro_05.html) (alias ice.net D-50) 
> with NM. The modem starts up in CD mode and requires an ioctl to change to 
> modem mode. I've created the cmotech-tools project 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmotech-tools) which now includes a small 
> program to do this switch. Connecting with wvdial works great.
> 
> To be usable with NM, I've also created a .fdi file:
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.1">
> <device>
> <match key="@info.parent:usb.vendor_id" int="0x16d8">
> <match key="@info.parent:usb.product_id" int="0x680a">
> <match key="@info.parent:usb.interface.number" int="0">
> <match key="serial.port" int="0">
> <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">cdma</append>
> <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">modem</append>
> </match>  </match>  </match>  </match>  </device> </deviceinfo>
> 
> I don't know much about .fdi:s, basically I'm guessing here, but after 
> adding this file as 
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-cmotech-modem.fdi, the 
> device shows up in NM. I do wonder which package should include a file 
> like this: Should I include it in my cmotech-utils package, or send a 
> patch to the HAL project?
> 
> Selecting "Auto CDMA" in NM fails. I guess this is because no username or 
> password is provided. For ice.net, both the username and password is 
> public, "cdma" and "cdma", but of course NM doesn't know this? It does 
> figure our the phone number (#777) automatically, though.

Jump into the connection editor (/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor) and add
the username and password for the "auto cdma" connection.  Does it work
then?

Thanks!
Dan

> The problem is, manually creating a Mobile Broadband connection doesn't 
> work either. See log below. Any ideas? I'm using Fedora9.
> 
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) starting connection 'ice.net'
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 3 -> 4
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Connected, Woo!
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 4 -> 5
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Starting pppd connection
> Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Using interface ppp0
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyACM0
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <WARN>  impl_ppp_manager_need_secrets(): Cleared secrets, but setting didn't need any secrets.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Unable to obtain CHAP password for sandy.lkpg.cendio.se on pdsn from plugin
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: No CHAP secret found for authenticating us to pdsn
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: CHAP authentication failed: Illegal user or password.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: CHAP authentication failed
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Connection terminated.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 5 -> 9
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'ice.net' invalid.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) failed.
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 9 -> 3
> Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): deactivating device.
> Jun  7 20:22:48 sandy pppd[3620]: Exit.
> 
> When using wvdial, the log is much shorter:
> 
> Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: Using interface ppp0
> Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyACM0
> Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy pppd[3907]: CHAP authentication succeeded: Welcome to pdsn.
> Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy pppd[3907]: CHAP authentication succeeded
> Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: local  IP address 91.149.34.104
> Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: remote IP address 91.149.32.32
> Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: primary   DNS address 213.248.100.54
> Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: secondary DNS address 213.248.83.34
> 
> Best regards, 
> /Peter Åstrand <astrand lysator liu se>
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