Hi Guys, I was really shocked to find out that the cdma mobile broadband dongle i had purchased does not work with mageia here in India and its a major drawback if this feature can't be used here when am trying to promote Mageia in a big way. The problem is as soon as i connect it to my sys, i find it in kde network center then i try to go through adding a new broadband connection using the available gui and i fill in details but when it comes to asking me to enter a 4 digit pin i enter 0000 as its the right one for the dongle. Then i get a pop up asking me to insert a sim when the dongle has no sim at all. This dongle works on my ubuntu after i went through a painful process. All is well there. I uninstalled opensuse as it did not accommodate this dongle and did the same for Mageia but i miss Mageia badly but as am heading into a village near my town i need connectivity. Fedora 22 just accepts my dongle like none other and very smooth. I tried lsusb and it detects my dongle. Am proving a few links that helped me get moving on ubuntu and they are as: blog.championswimmer.in/2012/using-tata-photon-huawei-e156-on-ubuntu/ http://www.tataindicom.com/download/dialers/dialup-internet-on-linux.pdf http://www.tatadocomo.com/photon-plus.aspx I tried the tips provided by both the links in Mageia and the Konsole did show me all was working but i could not connect to the internet. As per lsusb my product id was 0x140b and vendor was0x12d1 Bio-data of my dongle is as : Telecom provider : Tata Teleservices India or Tata Indicom. Dongle Name : Tata Photon+ Dongle Make : Huawei Mobile Broadband. Dongle Model : EC156 HSIA usb stick. Please help me guys and thanks for all help.
Forgot to add this link : http://www.tatadocomo.com/photon-plus.aspx
Hey Guys, Just found this https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=4193 Seems like someone else had the same problem and hit a dead end but on another model of a usb modem from the same service provider.
(In reply to Jude Ashvin Lobo Shenoy from comment #0) <snip> > The problem is as soon as i connect it to my sys, i find it in kde network > center then i try to go through adding a new broadband connection using the > available gui and i fill in details but when it comes to asking me to enter > a 4 digit pin i enter 0000 as its the right one for the dongle. Then i get a > pop up asking me to insert a sim when the dongle has no sim at all. <snip> > As per lsusb > my product id was 0x140b and vendor was0x12d1 > Bio-data of my dongle is as : > > Telecom provider : Tata Teleservices India or Tata Indicom. > Dongle Name : Tata Photon+ > Dongle Make : Huawei Mobile Broadband. > Dongle Model : EC156 HSIA usb stick. Thanks for the bug report What do you mean by kde network center? Did you click the network icon on the KDE panel and add it with draknetcenter http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/4/en/content/draknetcenter.html ? If so, please try whether adding it in MCC => Network & Internet => Set up a new network interface (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, ...), so with drakconnect, http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/4/en/content/drakconnect.html works better. If that doesn't help, then please attach dmesg.txt that results from running dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt and lspcidrake-v.txt resulting from: lspcidrake -v > lspcidrake-v.txt and journalctl-b.txt that results from running (as root) journalctl -b > journalctl-b.txt to this bug report
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: sysadmin-bugs => mageia, marja11, thierry.vignaud, tmbComponent: Release (media or process) => RPM PackagesSource RPM: (none) => drakx-net (?)
Hi Marja, Kde network center and draknetworkcenter are the same sorry for my mistake. I tried all those steps as suggested by you with those 2 links and still i was asked for pin and later after that was asked to insert a sim. Will give you an update in a week as am a bit busy getting out of town. Will be in touch regarding the diagnostics...:)
is usb_modeswitch installed ? if not, unplug the dongle, install usb_modeswitch-2.2.1-1.mga5 and usb_modeswitch-data-20150115-1.mga5. then plug in the dongle and try to configure it again
Hi Thomas, I did install usb modeswitch and usb modeswitch data along with wvdial and tried it as per the 2 links above in my bug report. It did show that it was connected but browsing was not at all possible. Tried wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf where i did add the number and password along with the id (id- internet, Password- internet, number #777)
ok, so maybe a routing or firewalling issue... when it's connected, what does theese commands show: route -n cat /etc/resolv.conf cat /etc/shorewall/interfaces iptables -L you could also try to disable the firewall
Hi Thomas, Please give me a week's time to revert back to you as am heading out of town early tomorrow morning. I am sure it's not a firewall issue as it's connected on Ubuntu. The main headache is the prompt for a pin when adding a 3g connection using draknetcenter and after adding the pin 0000 it throws up another pop-up suggesting i insert a sim into the dongle where there is no slot for a sim.
Hi Guys, Right now am attaching a few pics of what i see over here and will be updating a few diagnostics later.
Created attachment 6492 [details] draknetworkcenter detects modem as ppp0 - Huawei
Created attachment 6493 [details] When i click the configure button, am asked for the PIN
Created attachment 6494 [details] Then i get this insert sim message.
Created attachment 6495 [details] Now i try to set up a edge connection through network center in MCC.
Created attachment 6496 [details] USB cdma modem detected.
Created attachment 6497 [details] Am asked for the pin.
Created attachment 6498 [details] Again this annoying insert sim messge popup.
Created attachment 6499 [details] Output of lsusb shows huawei modem detected. Vendor 0x12d1 Product 0x140b.
Hi guys, Sorry for the quality of the pics cos i had to do all this in a jiffy. Did not use snapshot. More details to follow. Hope you get the picture now.
The message also states "leave *empty* if no pin needed" So dont enter any pin code
Hi Thomas, Same result without the pin. I get the insert sim popup :(
Attaching results of diagnostics in text and pics.
Created attachment 6502 [details] Dmesg output
Created attachment 6503 [details] iptables output
Created attachment 6504 [details] journalctl output
Created attachment 6505 [details] lspcidrake output
Created attachment 6506 [details] route -n
Created attachment 6507 [details] cat /etc/resolv
Created attachment 6508 [details] shorewall interfaces
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO
@ Jude Is this bug still valid? If so, in which Mageia version(s)? Guessing this is or was a kernel/firmware issue. Already assigning to kernel and drivers maintainers, to decrease the chance that no one sees Jude's reply, if this bug is still valid.
Assignee: bugsquad => kernelKeywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #29) > @ Jude > > Is this bug still valid? > > If so, in which Mageia version(s)? > Over 5 years later, no reply. Closing as OLD
Resolution: (none) => OLDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED