Re: Unable to use Huawaii LTE Stick with Ubuntu Lucid

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 15:48 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I have a problem with a Huawaii LTE Stick which comes from German Telekom:
> >  
> > Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
> >  
> > For an important LTE test project I need to have this stick working under Ubuntu
> > Lucid where all our apllications are running on.
> > We have some newer versions for modemmanager and network-manager under Lucid:
> 
> check with usb-devices or /proc/bus/usb/devices if the option driver is
> properly bound. Older kernels have a problem here binding the right
> ports. I saw that even with Fedora 15 kernels.
> 
> And that dongle is still a piece of work. Still trying to figure out on
> how it does the LTE switching to UMTS or GSM. Since LTE is a pure IP
> only connection, hiding it behind CGREG is wrong.

Ouch, does it support normal CE* EPS commands?  Is it based on a
Qualcomm chipset?  In which case we'd have half a chance as all the QC
LTE dongles I've seen so far do support the EPS AT commands.

Dan