Re: Mobile Broadband connection in fc24

[stan]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:11:16 +0200
"Patrick Dupre"  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I moved from fc22 to fc24.
> I used to connect to a 3G mobile broadband connection by doing:
> mcli -m 0 --pin=xxx -i /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/SIM/0
> --simple-connect="apn=3G" then
> systemctl stop NetworkManager
> NetworkManager
> and then
> ma connection to the provider
>
> Unfortunately, after I moved to fc24, this does not work:
> I get connection fails, Activation: failed for connection,

[snip]
> Can somebody help me?

The error messages suggest that you do the following:

Jul 31 12:48:27 sophocle pppd[5020]: You need to create the /dev/ppp
device node by executing the following command as root:
mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

Worth a try, anyway.