From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
Cc: Help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:38:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190928143825.vo3hoj63qedn7dwa@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87impcttbm.fsf@santanas.co.za>
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@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 Snapdragonâ„¢ 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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 10:35 internal 3g modem Divan Santana
2019-09-27 17:15 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-09-28 13:59 ` Divan Santana
2019-09-28 14:38 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
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