Bug 20423

Summary:	Problem to connect to 3G (without libqmi-utils modemmanager fails)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Fabrice Boyrie <fboyrie>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	modemmanager-1.6.4-2.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Fabrice Boyrie 2017-03-08 17:51:38 CET

Description of problem:

I have a dell Wireless 5630 (EVDO-HSPA) mobile broadband minicard with an Orange "Internet partout" sim card.

For netapplet it is  a wired ethernet interface. So I can not configure it.

  The only way to configure was to install netwokmanager, networkmanager-wwan modemmanager and libqmi-utils 
  I think you should add dependency on libqmi-utils for modemmanager (without it connection fail without any explanation)

By the way why insist on using net_applet

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-03-08 23:10:26 CET

Here, a different mobile card (a HUAWEI) with a sim card from a different provider, works after configuring the interface with drakconnect (selecting GPRS/Edge/3G).

This is despite the fact that it looks like a wired interface in draknetcenter and, worse, it's shown as inactive, while it's active. It works. 

After clicking on the "Monitor" button, it is the pppO interface that shows the activity. My wwp0s29u1u1i1 interface (the wrong "wired" interface in draknetcenter) shows no activity.

You could try whether it's similar for you: that it works after configuring the card with drakconnect http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakconnect.html
(more precisely this part http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakconnect.html#d4e1911 )

Bug 17827 more or less covers the above, so I'll keep this bug report for your suggestion to add a dependency on libqmi-utils for modemmanager.

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for modemmanager. Also CC'ing the libqmi-utils maintainer

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa, marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: Problem to connect to 3G => Problem to connect to 3G (without libqmi-utils modemmanager fails)

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2017-03-09 10:36:39 CET

Fixed in latest libqmi. Lib pkg requires now utils also to install qmi-proxy which is used by modemmanager.

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2017-03-09 10:37:27 CET

Closing as FIXED.

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2017-03-09 10:37:58 CET

Really closing as fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 5 Fabrice Boyrie 2017-03-09 11:55:18 CET

Thanks for bug resolution.
To answer to comment 1, drakconnect does not see any device when I want to create a 3G connection.