Re: Verizon/Novatel USB551L support?



On 05/06/2013 08:35 AM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
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

Thanks. Those don't seem to detect it at all (at least in KNetworkManager, and /var/log/messages makes it look unlikely that it's just a KNM problem). Sometime today I'll try using those specfiles to build git-master and see how it does.

Thanks again,
Jason


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