Re: Verizon/Novatel USB551L support?

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

Hey Jason,

> I have a Verizon/Novatel USB551L 4G/LTE (with CDMA 3G fallback) that I'm
> trying to get working. I'm running Fedora 18 (kernel
> 3.8.4-202.fc18.x86_64) with NetworkManager 0.9.8.0 and ModemManager
> 0.6.0.0. With these versions the modem doesn't seem to get detected
> correctly. The only thing I can find about NM/MM and this device is
> commit 463de46e on April 17th of this year by Dan Williams, with a
> comment of "novatel: ignore USB551L / Just like the E362, which the
> USB551L is quite similar to." which adds the USB ID to
> forbidden_products for in mm-plugin-novatel.
>
> I use KNetworkManager as a frontend, and when I plug in the device, it
> appears to be recognized but when I attempt to add a connection, my only
> option is "Installed CDMA Device". I've tried adding a CDMA connection
> with no luck, and NM (or at least KNM) doesn't seem to know anything
> about the LTE.
>
> Does anyone have this device working? If not, devs, I can open a bug
> report and provide NM and MM debug output, lsusb, etc. My C skills are
> pretty poor (virtually nonexistent), but I'm willing to provide any
> assistance that I can to get this working properly.

You should probably try to use ModemManager >= 0.7.x or directly compile
git master. I've got some (old) packages for F18 x86_64 here, which you
may give a try:

http://www.lanedo.com/~aleksander/fedora-packages/20130306/


-- 
Aleksander