On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: > pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> 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
