Re: Verizon/Novatel USB551L support?

[Jason Antman <jason jasonantman com>]

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