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From: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
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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.
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>> I think this is the internal modem device:
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:81b6 Dell Computer Corp. DW5811e Snapdragon=
=C3=A2=C2=84=C2=A2 X7 LTE
>
> ModemManager has a list of supported devices.  Your modem is not
> listed there, but older similar modems =E2=80=9CShould work=E2=80=9D, 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.