Re: NM 0.7.1 rc3 oddness with 3G USB device

[Conor Nolan <cnolan-ubuntu mee tcd ie>]

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:05 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:34 +0000, Conor Nolan wrote:
> > Ubuntu Jaunty - 0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1
> > 
> > After updating to the above I'm see strange behaviour with a Huawei E180.  
> > 
> > First to note the device works fine - still reported as an E220/270.
> > 
> > The strange behaviour is that nm-applet is now reporting two devices:
> > ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 (the control channel), instead of just the one.
> 
> Mobile broadband capabilities are detected with udev capabilities now
> too, but the problem here is that nothing reports which channel is the
> control channel and which isn't.  That information need to go into the
> driver somewhere like it does for 'hso' type devices.  I don't know;
> maybe asac is right and we do need to prefer HAL over udev at least for
> 0.7.1.

Well - it's not a show stopper.  But 'looks' bad.

> > The devices don't always get cleared from the list of Broadband devices when
> > the device is removed - these can keep mounting up.
> 
> That's quite odd; can you post some logs of this happening in NM?  I've
> heard of similar issues before but we could never nail them down to
> either NM or HAL.

I'll attempt to capture this occurrence,

Thanks for the informative reply.