Re: Huawei E169 - can't connect

[Sérgio Basto <sergio serjux com>]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 21:16 +0200, Joachim wrote: 
> I'm trying to connect using Huawei E169. I configured usb_modeswitch.
> Then I created connection using nm-connection-editor. When I plug in the
> modem I applet lists mobile connection I created, but I can't connect
> (when I click it it does nothing).
> 
> I started "cnetworkmanager -m" then tried to use the connection, here is
> what I got:
> 
> Entering mainloop
> ABBR /o/f/DB is /org/freedesktop/DBus
> ABBR o.f.DB is org.freedesktop.DBus
> SIG /o/f/DB: o.f.DB.NameAcquired(dbus.String(u':1.117'),)
>     Device State 40    (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3, was 30)
> ABBR /o/f/NM/AC/7 is /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/7
> ABBR o.f.NM.C.A is org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active
> SIG /o/f/NM/AC/7:
> o.f.NM.C.A.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'SpecificObject'):
> dbus.ObjectPath('/', variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'State'):
> dbus.UInt32(1L, variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'Vpn'):
> dbus.Boolean(False, variant_level=1)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> ABBR /o/f/NM/D/3 is /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3
> ABBR o.f.NM.D.M is org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Modem
> SIG /o/f/NM/D/3:
> o.f.NM.D.M.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'StateReason'):
> dbus.Struct((dbus.UInt32(40L), dbus.UInt32(0L)), signature=None,
> variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'State'): dbus.UInt32(40L,
> variant_level=1)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> ABBR /o/f/NM is /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager
> ABBR o.f.NM is org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
> SIG /o/f/NM:
> o.f.NM.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'ActiveConnections'):
> dbus.Array([dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/6'),
> dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/7')],
> signature=dbus.Signature('o'), variant_level=1)},
> signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> ABBR /o/f/MM/M/1 is /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/1
> ABBR o.f.MM.M is org.freedesktop.ModemManager.Modem
> SIG /o/f/MM/M/1: o.f.MM.M.StateChanged(dbus.UInt32(10L),
> dbus.UInt32(30L), dbus.UInt32(0L))
> SIG /o/f/MM/M/1: o.f.MM.M.StateChanged(dbus.UInt32(30L),
> dbus.UInt32(10L), dbus.UInt32(0L))
>     Device State 120    (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3, was
> 40 reason 28)
> SIG /o/f/NM/D/3:
> o.f.NM.D.M.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'StateReason'):
> dbus.Struct((dbus.UInt32(120L), dbus.UInt32(28L)), signature=None,
> variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'State'): dbus.UInt32(120L,
> variant_level=1)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> SIG /o/f/NM:
> o.f.NM.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'ActiveConnections'):
> dbus.Array([dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/6'),
> dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/7')],
> signature=dbus.Signature('o'), variant_level=1)},
> signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> SIG /o/f/NM/AC/7:
> o.f.NM.C.A.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'State'):
> dbus.UInt32(0L, variant_level=1)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
>     Device State 30    (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3, was 120)
> SIG /o/f/NM/D/3:
> o.f.NM.D.M.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'StateReason'):
> dbus.Struct((dbus.UInt32(30L), dbus.UInt32(0L)), signature=None,
> variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'State'): dbus.UInt32(30L,
> variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'Ip6Config'): dbus.ObjectPath('/',
> variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'Ip4Config'): dbus.ObjectPath('/',
> variant_level=1)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> SIG /o/f/NM:
> o.f.NM.PropertiesChanged(dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'ActiveConnections'):
> dbus.Array([dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/6')],
> signature=dbus.Signature('o'), variant_level=1)},
> signature=dbus.Signature('sv')),)
> 
> 
> could you help me fix this?

As a owner of o E1550, I advise you, delete configurations of Mobile
broadband and do it again. 
After update to ModemManager-0.5.1.97-1 and  NetworkManager-0.9.3.995
I can't connect, but after clean configurations and redo it again ,
everything went fine. 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.