Re: Verizon/Novatel USB551L support?

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

On 06/05/13 14:22, Jason Antman wrote:
> On 05/06/2013 02:55 AM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > 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/
> Aleks,
>
> Thanks so much. I gave those packages a shot, but there seems to be an
> unsatisfied dependency for libmm-glib.so.0 (even though there doesn't
> appear to be anything currently on my system that provides that). Is
> there any chance you have spec files for those so I can try the build
> myself with the latest git master? I'd try local compile, but I
> absolutely need my laptop working this afternoon, so I need to have a
> good, safe rollback plan.

libmm-glib is provided by ModemManager itself. Seems the directory I
pointed you at only contains NM packages, sorry for that... check also
this link, which should contain ModemManager and other related packages
as well:
  http://www.lanedo.com/~aleksander/fedora-packages/20121112/

Also, you can find the RPM specs here:
  https://gitorious.org/lanedo/fedora-packages-modemmanager
  https://gitorious.org/lanedo/fedora-packages-networkmanager
  https://gitorious.org/lanedo/fedora-packages-networkmanager-applet
  https://gitorious.org/lanedo/fedora-packages-gnome-shell
  https://gitorious.org/lanedo/fedora-packages-control-center

-- 
Aleksander