Option Icon 225 HSDPA mobile broadband modem not detected

[Runar Ingebrigtsen]

Binary package hint: network-manager

The modem depends on usb_modeswitch (http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/), which I load using udev rules (attached).

To connect with the modem, I have to use HSOconnect (http://www.pharscape.org/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,68/page,viewtopic/t,474/), as that's the only way I've found to work. wvdial doesn't detect the modem, even if I load the usbserial module on it, and the same applies to gnome-ppp.

Then network-manager is no better off. I can't see any way to tell network-manager that I have this modem connected to my computer. It's loaded with the hso module, but network-manager doesn't detect the ttyUSB's either.

[Runar Ingebrigtsen (ringe)]

Oh, and I use the latest network-manager packages from the PPA on 8.04.

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

I do encounter the same issue with my ICON 225 modem on intrepid. Enclosing lshal and relevant dmesg.
Unfortunately on Intrepid the pharscape.org drivers do not compile anymore.

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

Isn't this the same bug as #256296?

Unload the 'option' driver and the 'hso' module, then reload the 'hso' module, and it should work. Blacklisting the 'option' module and rebooting should work as well.