Re: 3G USB support for NM 0.7.0

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:44 -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 19:54 -0500, Keith Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >    I am trying to get my Sierra Wireless 598 CDMA USB modem to work.
> > I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) which came preloaded on Dell mini
> > Inspiron 1210 (like a netbook)
> > I cannot (easily) upgrade the kernel or distro due to custom Dell
> > hardware kernel drivers (WiFi driver "wl" is proprietary).
> > I am using dual boot (DOS/XP/Ubuntu) with GRUB 1.0 in the MBR, don't
> > want to upgrade to GRUB2 (comes with Ubuntu 8.10) since I have a
> > working freedos bootable USB drive with GRUB1 for dos installer (just
> > in case).
> > I believe that Ubunutu 9.x fully supports the Sierra Wireless 598 out
> > of the box... cannot upgrade as stated above.
> 
> The "wl" driver is actually apart of Ubuntu. We are working to making
> the installation of it seemless in the 10.04 release.
> 
> Though what you can do is move to Ubuntu 9.10. Then connect the It via
> ethernet. Then go to System->Hadware Drivers . This will then grab the
> driver from the net and install it. A reboot and your ready to go. You
> can also try this with a live session.
> 
> Also this thread may help (comment #6):
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824931
> 
> 
> The "wl" driver is actually a product of Broadcom, who currently does
> not have a completely open driver. Though work is being done to make it
> easier to deal with.

Sigh.  Or Canonical could put some effort behind the upstream b43 driver
to get N-PHY support completed.  Somebody is actually working on N-PHY
now too, so maybe you guys can just wait and let somebody else do the
work.  While continuing to ship a binary driver that you can't possibly
fix when users have problems with it.

Dan

> > 
> > I have upgraded to the latest released Network Manager 0.7.0 and
> > Modem Manager 0.0+20081126t163712.bf522e3.mbm.f2-0ubuntu2
> > using apt-get etc.
> > I have downloaded, compiled and installed the latest Sierra Wireless
> > driver (v.1.7.8) for my kernel (2.6.24)
> > 
> > USB connects fine on Windows XP computer, device is activated.
> > Kernel: 2.6.24-22-lpia
> > 
> > I am able to connect to internet using the following:
> > 
> > 1) plug into any USB slot, kernel detects device, ignores tru-install
> > 
> > 2) I run usb_modeswitch to change from "mass storage" to "modem"
> >    kernel then detects it is Sierra Modem (dmesg)
> >    /ttyUSB0 to /ttyUSB4 devices are available
> > 3) wvdial into /dev/ttuUSB0
> > 4) pppd
> > 5) manually adding required routes to routing table (local IP, remote
> > IP, and gateway)
> > 6) manually adding DNS entries in /etc/resolve.conf
> > 
> >   I can script items 1 to 4, but have trouble with 5 and 6 because
> > Network manager will overwrite them...
> > 
> >   Now I understand there is a plug-in mechanism to add USB BroadBand
> > Mobile devices to network manager, by copying existing examples...I
> > will need help to find and configure them...
> > 
> >   Since the kernel does not detect the USB modem without sending
> > usb_modeswitch... is there any hope to getting network manager to work
> > with a D-Bus signal/message?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Keith.
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