3G dongle getting detected as USB disk on Fedora 18

[Soham Chakraborty]

I know man but I cannot update. Because I have to stick to the policies
laid down by the internal IT team.

Nice comparisons you provided though ;) I will go over the links pretty
soon.

On another note, this looks like a pretty mundane problem, right. I mustn't
b the first guy to hit this.


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:14 PM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01.01.2014 14:33, Soham Chakraborty wrote:
> > Afternoon folks,
> >
> > I know that Fedora 18 is kinda obsolete but for a number of reasons, I
> have
> > to stick to it for the time being. However, I am quite sure that this
> > problem/behavior isn't restricted to F18. But since I am using that,
> ought
> > to say that.
> >
> > So, here is the problem.
> >
> > I have a ZTE K3800 dongle which I use for wireless/3G connection,
> provided
> > by Vodafone. When I plugin the device, it prompts to connect and works.
> > Problem is, as soon as I connect, systemd sends a signal 15 to
> > network-manager and the applet disappears from system tray. Therefore,
> if I
> > try to configure VPN, I find no option. Note that, I am only trying to
> > configure from the nm-applet.
>
> kernel:
> -3.11.10-100.fc18
> -3.12.5-302.fc20
>
> systemd:
> -201-2.fc18.9
> -208-9.fc20
>
> usb_modeswitch:
> -1.2.5-1.fc18
> -1.2.7-3.fc20
>
> usb_modeswitch-data:
> -20121109-1.fc18
> -20131113-1.fc20
>
> ModemManager:
> -0.6.2.0-1.fc18
> -1.1.0-2.git20130913.fc20
>
> NetworkManager:
> -0.9.8.2-1.fc18
> -0.9.9.0-22.git20131003.fc20
>
> Reminder: Fedora 18 end of life on 2014-01-14
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-December/003189.html
>
> Announcing the release of Fedora 20.
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-December/003187.html
>
>
> Each such device & firmware is a story in itself, so
>
> /usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch/
> /usr/share/doc/usb_modeswitch-data/
>
> USB_ModeSwitch
> http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
>
> ModeSwitchForum
> http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/
>
> Development discussions about ModemManager
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmanager-devel
>
> NetworkManager discussions
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
>
> When you talk to devs, always engage latest & greatest - Rawhide. :)
> Good look.
>
>
> poma
>
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