Re: NetworkManager doesn't detect my device

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 06:50 -0800, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> 
> The interesting part was mentioned in the above blog article. It's
> 
>     Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0af0:6971 Option
> 
> matching the output of hal-find-by-capability.

NM 0.7.1 and later don't use HAL for detecting mobile broadband devices
for various reasons.  (basically, many devices use the same USB IDs for
very different hardware, and firmware often switches around the
PPP-capable ports so .fdi files are useless).

Instead, it uses a little udev helper called nm-modem-probe to ask the
port what its capabilities are.

What specific version of NetworkManager are you using on F11?  What's
the output of 'udevadm info --export-db' for the block representing your
device's serial ports?

Your device may need a "modeswitch" before it can be used.  Also, you
may have new enough firmware that the device needs to be driven by the
'hso' driver instead of 'option'.

dan

> Jochen
> 
> 
> 
> José Queiroz wrote:
> > 
> > What kind of device you have? May you post the output of "lsusb"?
> > 
> > 2010/2/21 Jochen Wiedmann <jochen wiedmann gmail com>:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to use my UTMS stick on a different machine running Fedora
> >> 11. I
> >> was doing this on another machine with Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 before.
> >> Details are described in my Blog on
> >>
> >>
> >> http://grumpyapache.blogspot.com/2009/05/mobile-internet-with-fedora-10-and.html
> >> http://grumpyapache.blogspot.com/2009/05/mobile-internet-with-fedora-10-and.html
> >>
> >> I am now following basically the same procedure. I get so far, that the
> >> stick is recognized as a modem and the right kernel module is loaded:
> >>
> >>  [anja tethys ~]$ hal-find-by-capability --capability=modem
> >>
> >> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_af0_6971_Serial_Number_if0_serial_unknown_1
> >>
> >> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_af0_6971_Serial_Number_if0_serial_unknown_0
> >>  [anja tethys ~]$ lsmod | grep option
> >>  option                 20188  0
> >>  usbserial              27572  1 option
> >>
> >> However, when I start nm-connection-editor and try to enter a new mobile
> >> broadband device, then the device list is greyed out. So it looks like
> >> NetworkManager doesn't recognize my device anyways.
> >>
> >> Any ideas, what might be wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jochen
> >>
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