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Re: internal 3g modem


From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:38:25 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
> >> Hi Guix,
> >>
> >> Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :)
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get the internal 3g modem to work in my Dell laptop
> >> running guix.
> >> […]
> >> I think this is the internal modem device:
> >>
> >> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:81b6 Dell Computer Corp. DW5811e Snapdragon™ 
> >> X7 LTE
> >
> > ModemManager has a list of supported devices.  Your modem is not
> > listed there, but older similar modems “Should work”, it says.  Did it
> > work on another distro before?
> >
> > I have no experience with dial-up modems, but apparently ppp can be
> > used somehow to connect with those.  Network-manager can be made to
> > use ppp, but I do not know if that works in Guix right now.
> 
> Good point. I booted up a live ubuntu 18.08.3 disk and it detected the
> modem and just worked.
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot this further. I'll have a think
> about it.

That it works on Ubuntu is interesting.  Doing a websearch for
413c:81b6 yields
<http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?p=16638>.
This leads to <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92101>.
Maybe Ubuntu does runs similar commands automatically?

Regards,
Florian



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