Re: libnl-3.2.25 doesn't report version info to Network Manager.

[John Whitmore <arigead gmail com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 20:47 +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> > So I got my libnl conflicts sorted out but I'm afraid I'm no farther down the
> > road. I can barely remember why I started all this. USB 4G Modems :-(
> >
> > Even looking at some of the regular desktop distro can't handle them at all so
> > why did I start this on a RaspberryPi of all things?
> >
> > So now after installing:
> >
> > libmbim-1.12.2
> > libndp-1.4
> > libnl-3-2-26
> > libqmi-1.12.6
> > ModemManager-1.4.8
> > NetworkManager-1.0.2
> >
> > when I run NetworkManager I get told that it can't find a configuration file:
> >
> > No config file found or given; using /usr/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
>
> you can specify the location of the configuration with
>
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
>
> > That's a bit of a surprise as I'm overwriting a previous install of
> > NetworkManager which has a config file in /etc/NetworkManager. So I pass that
> > config file to NetworkManager.
> >
> > Either way makes no difference actually as the NM bombs out on an assert
> > error:
> >
> > libnm:ERROR:../libnm-core/nm-setting.c:1830:constructed: assertion failed: (_priv_esi->info)
>
> maybe you need this patch:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?h=lr/ancient-ubuntu&id=0fe72f0e6b5ff0aedfb14ce93f7d274950f0adde
>
> from
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749510
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/log/?h=lr/ancient-ubuntu
>
>
>
> > Don't know what to say. Well tired of it. Could try the Arch Linux distro for
> > RPi. Just for a fresh hell. A lot of distros I've tried on the desktop simply
> > can't eject the CDRom when it's plugged in.
> >
> > Back to the drawing board.
> >
> > Any ideas would be great. Maybe the assert is because of a config issue? Maybe
> > even a simple config issue?
> >
> > Need a break
> >
> > John

Just to let you know how I got on with this, I gave up on ever getting things
to build happily on the Raspbian Distro and instead turned my attention to
working with the Ubuntu Mate distro. That's got a more up to date set of
utilities and ModemManager and NetworkManager seem to work great when they get
the oppertunity.

Problem is that Ubuntu will not release the CD Drive and let usb_modeswitch do
its work. Still trying to get my head around that and there's a fair amount of
banging my head against a brick wall.

John