3G USB Alcatel One Touch x030 not recognized by Network Manager

[Luchostein]

I bought a 3G USB modem Alcatel One Touch x030. It has a dual behavior.

On one hand, it works as a read-only flash drive with Windows drivers. It gets correctly detected by Device Notifier and I can mount it if I want.

On the other hand, the same device can be recognized as a serial device. Which behavior will be gotten depends on the Vendor-ID and Product-ID. This second behavior doesn't get detected by Network Manager, so manual Konsole-way configuration was needed.

Up to Kubuntu 8.10, I modprobe'd usbserial module with Vendor-ID=0x1c93 and Product-Id=0x6061, prior execution of usbmodeswith with:

DefaultVendor=0x1c9e
DefaultProduct=0x1001
TargetVendor=0x1c9e
TargetProduct=0x6061
MessageEndpoint=0x05
MessageContent=55534243123456780000000000000606f50402527000000000000000000000

This way, I could tell to the kernel to use the 3G behavior instead of the Flash Drive behavior. But all that configuration had to be done manually (well, finally I scripted it) before plug.

Since Kubuntu 9.04, usbserial module is shipped into de kernel so I can't do this procedure anymore, nor it works in the Network Manager widget. Today, I have to setup usbserial.vendor and usbserial.product kernel parameters in Grub's menu.lst on boot.

Please, make Network Manager widget work with it or give us back usbserial module.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

This is not a paper cut because it is not a general usability issue, but rather a bug affecting a relatively small user population. Please take the time to assign bugs relating to specific applications to the correct project. In this case Network Manager.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

can you make that device work with modeswitch?

otherwise please modeswitch and run /lib/udev/nm-modem-probe --export --verbose /dev/ttyXXX
against your device ttys and attach the output.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.