3G USB Alcatel One Touch x030 not recognized by Network Manager
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
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=
DefaultProduct=
TargetVendor=0x1c9e
TargetProduct=
MessageEndpoint
MessageContent=
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.
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.