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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:15:10 +0200
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To: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>=20
> Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :)
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> 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.

Regards,
Florian