Re: Mobile broadband and carriers

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:18:01AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Which exact version of NetworkManager are you using?  It looks like
> NetworkManager cannot properly initialize the phone to be able to check
> for a PIN.  This could be due to the older version of NM that Ubuntu
> ships, we've done some work in NetworkManager since that version
> (including the actual 0.7.0 release) that fixes that issue for many
> devices (by trying alternate init commands).  Trying the latest NM from
> the PPA might help to isolate that issue.

FWIW, here the PPA address

  http://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive

> 
> If the latest Ubuntu bits fail, then open a Terminal, become root, stop
> the NetworkManager service, and execute the following command:
> 
> NM_SERIAL_DEBUG=1 NetworkManager --no-daemon
> 
> then wait about 10 seconds, and try your 3G connection.  Grab the output
> that NM spits out into the terminal, and paste it into a reply to this
> message.
> 

 - Alexander