Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

[Mick]

On Friday 29 Mar 2013 23:40:18 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 29.03.2013 22:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> > Am 29.03.2013 22:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> >> I don't know about NM's preferences ... I just assume this could be
> >> the problem.
> >>
> >> Gotta dig up some udev-ruling for this, any quick pointers anyone?
> >
> > even "easier":
> >
> > You can change the device name using ifrename from package
> > wireless_tools.
> >
> > Now I have device wwan0 but still NM does not care about it.
> >
> > I really don't want to rant ... but ... you know.
>
> Just an observation:
>
> Started a VM on my main workstation ... Windows XP inside of VMware Player.
> Not even KVM or something ...
>
> Connected that funny stick to that very VM ... and connected to funky
> internet on first try ...

Don't you loooove OS automation?  Especially when it works!  ;-)

If you look at the device manager you will probably find different strings 
describing the USB device interfaces that WinXP detects/assigns compared to 
your Linux OS + udevd + systemd.

When you tried adding the new module you should see a load more interfaces 
coming up in dmesg, through usbserial_generic and then cdc_wdm and qmi_wann, 
like this:

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg64061.html

This guys seems to be getting 3 x ttyUSBX popping up.

Once you get to this stage with an appropriate udev rule if need be, then 
apparently you need to emerge this:

$ eix -l libqmi
* net-libs/libqmi
     Available versions:  
	~	1.0.0	[doc static-libs test]
	**	9999	[doc static-libs test]
     Homepage:            http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libqmi/
     Description:         QMI modem protocol helper library


and see if that with its qmicli utility allows you to manage your connection.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick