Re: mobile broadband not working anymore

[Pekka Pekka <repulse monkey gmail com>]

Hi, firstly the 3G modem's lsusb output...
leke leke-desktop:~$ lsusb
...  
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem
...

I guess it's not picking up the hardware. That is, I usually connect the modem and left click the applet icon and choose the named profile I created. The manager usually connects me in a few seconds. The problem is the profile doesn't appear. I can only see the profile in the 'Edit connections' window under Mobile broadband. Earlier in the postings, I mentioned trying to delete and recreate my profile, but without success.

Another thing. I was mistaken when I said the WLAN was working. It picks up the networks available to connect to, but fails to connect. I can connect to these networks with my internet tablet and have connected to them in the past with NetworkManager. 

I also made a mistake about the version of Ubuntu I was running. It's Ubuntu 8.04.2 (taken from /etc/issue) 

I hope I can redeem myself here though. Here is the output of the 3G modem running in debug mode...

leke leke-desktop:~$ sudo NM_SERIAL_DEBUG=1 NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManager service as it is already taken.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  main(): Failed to start the dbus service.
NetworkManager: <info>  exiting (error)


Thanks for the help.

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:21 +0300, Pekka Pekka wrote:
> NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100
>
> and my SPM log...
>
> Commit Log for Wed Apr 29 18:15:53 2009
>
> Upgraded the following packages:
> akiradnews (20081019) to 20090428
> firefox (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> firefox-3.0 (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> firefox-3.0-gnome-support (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> firefox-gnome-support (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> libnm-glib0 (0.7-0ubuntu2~nm1~hardy3) to 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2.0hardy4
> libnm-util1 (0.7-0ubuntu2~nm1~hardy3) to 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2.0hardy4
> network-manager (0.7-0ubuntu2~nm1~hardy3) to 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2.0hardy4
> network-manager-gnome (0.7-0ubuntu2~nm1~hardy1) to 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu3~hardy2
> xulrunner-1.9 (1.9.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 1.9.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support (1.9.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 1.9.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

When you say "stopped working", do you mean that it could not
successfully complete the connection, or that it is no longer recognized
by NM, or that it hangs at some point after connection, or...?

What model of 3G modem? �Can you provide the 'lsusb' output (ie, the
device identifiers) for it?

If NM does see the modem, you can:

1) stop NetworkManager
2) as root, run:
NM_SERIAL_DEBUG=1 NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon"
3) and try to connect and trigger the problem
4) capture the output from that NetworkManager run, and reply to this
list with it

Thanks!
Dan

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Brian Morrison <bdm fenrir org uk>
> wrote:
>
> � � � � Pekka Pekka wrote:
> � � � � > I've been using a 3G USB modem with NetworkManager applet
> � � � � for a while now
> � � � � > with no problems. All of a sudden, it just stopped working.
> � � � � >
> � � � � > I tried things like restarting, deleting the modem's profile
> � � � � and creating it
> � � � � > again, but it's still not working.
> � � � � > I can connect with my WLAN dongle though and my 3G modem is
> � � � � working fine on
> � � � � > my eeePC running the default Xandros distro.
> � � � � >
> � � � � > This seemed to happen right after an update.
> � � � � >
> � � � � > Can anyone offer some advise?'
>
>
> � � � � Which version of NM are you running?
>
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