From: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:59:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87impcttbm.fsf@santanas.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190927171509.itrduesbevzgxhp6@pelzflorian.localdomain>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-28 14:00 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2019-09-28 14:38 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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