Re: Option HSO device + NetworkManager 0.7

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 23:10 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> I have an Option Icon 225 (provided by Orange in the UK). I'm currently
> using it with HSOConnect and a 2.6.27-rc8 kernel with the hso kernel
> driver. However I'd like to get it working with Network Manager as that
> seems like a much cleaner solution.
> 
> I'm running Debian testing and have compiled up the pkg-utopia packages
> of NetworkManager (svn r4142) and network-manager-applet (svn r920).
> That gives me a control panel regarding PPP connections, but plugging in
> the USB dongle doesn't result in NM doing anything. I've tried
> installing the Option provided udev bits that include some HAL scripts
> regarding the modem. That makes NM show the device is available, but
> clicking on it seems to result in PPP being invoked and failing.
> 
> My understanding (and experience with HSOConnect) is that PPP shouldn't
> be involved at all for this device. What am I missing in terms of
> getting it running under NM? I had a look at recent hal-info git but
> couldn't see anything obvious?

Correct, PPP doesn't get invoked at all with these devices.  Can you
provide some log output from /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log
that shows where you plug in the device and where NM recognizes it?

You need the udev rules to eject the ZeroCD mass storage device that
always pops up when you plug the thing in, but after that you'll get the
serial devices that are needed to control the dongle.  Once you've tried
to connect, grab logs from the aforementioned places and reply to this
message with them.

I have an iCON 225 that I use quite often so it should work, but if it
doesn't then we need to track some things down.  Latest svn 4154 should
have the option to turn on serial debugging with NM_SERIAL_DEBUG as an
environment variable so doing:

NM_SERIAL_DEBUG=blah /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

will give you some useful output, which I'd like to see if you can.

Dan