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Hi am trying to use my ISP provided Huawei USB modem. Arch detects the usb modem well. I connect and run the lsusb command to see the following:
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
But when i run wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf, i get the following message (the FAQ link there gave me a WSOD):
[njathan@OuchLinuX etc]$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
Password:
Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'.
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0 S1 S2 S3
Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDial
[njathan@OuchLinuX etc]$
Though i know mine is not a 220, i tried following some seemingly harmless instructions from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Huawei_E220
That did not help either. Can someone help me configure the USB modem?
note: If it helps my Indian friends here in any way... i am trying to get the Tata Photon+ datacard working.
Last edited by njathan (2012-03-06 05:16:31)
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Have a look at the modemmanager and usb_modeswitch packages.
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Thanks Strike0.
Installed modemmanager, but it doesn't seem to help. Any pointers?
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I am successfully using a USB modem with wvdial and usb_modeswitch packages. Try installing usb_modeswitch...
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What gets logged to dmesg when you plug in your modem?
When you insert the device, do you get a new node in /dev? It man be called something like /dev/ttyUSB0.
Lastly, I know nothing of wvdialconf, but it looks like it is only scanning /dev/ttyS0 though /dev/ttyS3. You may need to explicitly tell it to use ttyUSB0
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What gets logged to dmesg when you plug in your modem?
dmesg logs nothing. I did a 'watch tail /var/log/dmesg.log', inserted the modem, but the logs show as if nothing had happened.
When you insert the device, do you get a new node in /dev? It man be called something like /dev/ttyUSB0.
a new device /dev/sr1 is created
Lastly, I know nothing of wvdialconf, but it looks like it is only scanning /dev/ttyS0 though /dev/ttyS3. You may need to explicitly tell it to use ttyUSB0
It does seem to be looking for ttyUSB0 as well... but there is no such file created in /dev.
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I am successfully using a USB modem with wvdial and usb_modeswitch packages. Try installing usb_modeswitch...
thanks tpfkanep! The modem seems to work with usb_modeswitch! Now posting via modem's internet
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Great. Don't forget to put to [solved], if it keeps working after reboot ;-)
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