On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:28:00PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 23/11/18 at 12:02, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > On 11/22/18 4:28 PM, ael wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 03:10:15PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > >>> > >>> What is needed to install so that Devuan Jessie recognizes Huawei > >>> modems: > >>> > >>> - Huawei Mobile Connect - 3G modem (Wintendo sees it as such) > >>> - Huawei USB modem E3372 4G > >>> - Huawei Mobile Wifi router E5573C 4G
> > I found some info on the net that such dongles might require to be > > switched from the bulk memory stick mode to the modem mode, or > > something like that, to be able to activate in Linux. > Right, many USB modems show up as something different than a > networking device when they are plugged-in. I haven't used any of them > for a long time, but I remember many of them show up as a CDROM device > which carries the Windows drivers and/or some Windows utility. The > actual modem shows up after the CDROM device is unmounted or ejected. Ie, usbmodeswitch. This might or might not work with modemmanager -- in my experience, it works _randomly_. Including having the dongle suddenly switch while the connection is running, with obviously fatal results. And modemmanager seems to be unable to recover. > The package modemmanager is supposed to take care of the correct > initialization of a number of known and supported modems using udev's > rules (the ASCII package install 18 such rules). Yet, I think sometimes > human intervention is still needed, and of course several USB modems (as > well as PCMCIA/CardBus ones and some WiFi dongles and Access Points) are > partially, poorly or not supported at all. Alas, we're deeply in the "sacrifice a young black goat" land. The quality of drivers, firmware and _hardware_ is so egregious that it's far more effort effective to take an old phone and set up tethering. I'd point at a particular piece of crap from A4Tech as a newcomer to my shitlist, but I imagine they're on par with their competition. Back in 2002, I made a pictorial HOWTO wrt dealing with Wintendo-only modems: https://angband.pl/fun/winmodem/ -- as you can see, they can be a tough nut to crack. This HOWTO hasn't lost a bit of its value. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
