Re: NM and my Vodafone PCMCIA-card doesnt work, NM uses /dev/ttyUSB0 instead of /dev/ttyUSB2

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:15:09PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:40 +0100, Knud Müller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My Vodafone Card creates when plugged into my notebok 3
> > devices /dev/ttyUSB0,1 and 2. Network Manager recognises
> > it correctly and opens a wizzard to create a connection.
> > NM uses when connecting afterwards /dev/ttyUSB0 (I found out by accident
> > as it is mentioned in the tooltip / is there any log). NM fails
> > silently, there is simply no connection, but no error message too. This
> > devicedoesnt work with gnome-ppp too, so I assume its the wrong Port.
> > When using /dev/ttyUSB2 with gnome-ppp I can establish a 3G connection.
> > As I was unable to find any setting to tell NM to use ttyUSB2 instead -
> > what can I do about it?
> 
> Which port is actually the control port is determined (at the moment) by
> HAL .fdi files, typically in:
> 
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi
> 
> The full 'lshal' output would be needed to determine how to update
> 10-modem.fdi correctly.

If you are using ubuntu, please file a bug against hal-info package in
launchpad with the fixed modem.fdi information.

 - Alexander