Re: NetworkManager and my Palm Centro don't work

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

Hi Scott

Is that the USBModem program from Mobilie Stream? If so, then I've got NM working with it on my Treo 680, with provisos.

NM should recognise it as a modem without needing to do any device links. It detects the ttyACM0 device directly - or rather the connection event is forwarded via DBus. If you monitor the daemon log you should see these events. If you don't then I would suspect a DBus problem.

However, the modem init string in NM doesn't work correctly for USBModem. Check my recent posts here where I've suggested a change that will take account of its foibles. I've fixed it temporarily by patching the binary - if you don't want to try this I can send you my tweaked version. Without this patch it will timeout and fail to dial.

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Cheers
Rick

--On Thursday, January 01, 2009 20:03:52 -0500 Scott Chapman <scott_list mischko com> wrote:

¦ I've got Ubuntu 8.1.0 and NM 0.7.0
¦ I have and older installation (Ubuntu 7.10) which uses the the cdc_acm
¦ driver with my Centro and it does ppp connectivity.  I was hoping to get
¦ the NetworkManager to do the job with it's Mobile Broadband.  I've done the
¦ following:
¦ 
¦ When the Centro is USB connexted and the USBModem program run on it, Ubuntu
¦ loads the cdc_acm driver which creates a /dev/ttyACM0 device. I made a
¦ symlink from /dev/modem to it and added  myself to the dialout group in
¦ /etc/group.
¦ 
¦ I added a new Mobile Broadband connection but it doesn't show up in the
¦ NetworkManager.
¦ 
¦ Obviously, I'm missing some pieces.  How do I make it work?
¦ 
¦ TIA,
¦ Scott
¦ 
¦