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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:01:07
Message-Id: 5155E4FB.6040809@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276 by Mick
1 Am 29.03.2013 19:51, schrieb Mick:
2
3 > ifconfig should show a new device has been activated.
4 >
5 > Yes?
6
7 see below ...
8
9 >> When I rmmod them all and plug in again, I get "option" loaded
10 >> again. Should I remove this one from my .config?
11 >>
12 >> Even when I rmmod option, modprobe qmi_wwan and then plugin
13 >> "option" gets loaded (and no "mobile broadband" in NM).
14 >
15 > I would get NM troubleshooted after the device is recognised by the
16 > kernel and the relevant modules are loaded.
17 >
18 >
19 >> Could it be related to our friend systemd which renames "wwan0"
20 >> to "wwp0s26u1u1i1" according to dmesg?
21 >
22 > I thought that this is a udev issue, rather than systemd.
23
24
25 Sure, udev.
26
27 I don't know
28 > anything about systemd (not tried it yet) and on a stable Gentoo
29 > install you should be able to see the wwan0 device in ifconfig.
30
31 I get no wwan0 but this:
32
33 # ifconfig wwp0s26u1u2i1
34 wwp0s26u1u2i1: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
35 ether 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
36 RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
37 RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
38 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
39 TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
40
41 Just read the posting by Diego Petteno on this issue:
42
43 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictably-non-persistent-names
44
45 > PS. I should also say that I don't use NM on my machines ... so
46 > someone else should hopefully be able to help with NM issues. I
47 > use symlinks in /etc/init.d/ for my NICs.
48
49 NM sometimes is very comfortable on notebooks etc. ... so why not ...
50
51 I don't know if NM *should* detect that fuzzy interface-name now ...
52 maybe I should do some udev-rule to get wwan0 back? At least for a test.
53
54 Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>