bug no: 552456 E620 not detected - 2nd Request

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:53 +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:27:38AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:18 +0800, Steven James Drinnan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to get my k3715 to work in F12 or F13. I have filled this
> > > bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552456 . It
> > > reports by dmesg as a E620.
> > > 
> > > The modem works fine in F11 with no usb_modeswitch. But by default the
> > > CD Rom and Memory card a re disabled by default.
> > > 
> > > In F12 and F13 the option driver reports a callback error of 108. But
> > > the CD Rom and Memory card are enabled. I tried usb_modeswitch. but
> > > this has no effect.
> > > 
> > > In searching this seem to be Linux. wide problem across all
> > > distributions. And some distributions say that it is fixed. (not
> > > confirmed)
> > > 
> > > See my bug report for more details. 
> > > 
> > > I am just trying to get this long standing problem fixed. Any help
> > > that I can be please ask.
> > 
> > Followed up in the bug; modeswitching is an area that's not completely
> > mature yet, unfortunately.
> 
> modemswitching should not be needed at all when the CD feature is disabled.
> 
> Does the modem work when you start the pppd connection manually?
> 
> I have issues with an K3565-Z on F12, not found the time to file a proper
> bugreport yet but basically kernel recognioses it and NetworkManager for
> some reason does not show the modem at all. Modemswitching is not needed
> in my case because I have disabled the CD feature.

If NM doesn't recognize the device, please use the following procedure
to diagnose the issue:

http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging

"Debugging NetworkManager 0.8.x 3G connections"

and lets see why modem-manager isnt' finding the device correctly.

Thanks!
Dan