Huawei Mobile EC168c USB Stick doesnt work in 9.10 ( used to work in 9.04)

[ANIMESH]

Binary package hint: network-manager

My Huawei EC168c (sold by Reliance in INDIA) works flawlessly in Ubuntu 9.04, but no longer works in 9.10.
Network manager says " Prepering mobile internet connection...." and then no network connection. :-(
Left Clicking on the device says no Device available
(in 9.04 it showed auto cdma mobile connect in mobile broadband section)

Working with gnome-ppp :-) after setting it up though.
(http://animeshmeher.wordpress.com/)

But why a step backward when this worked like a charm in Jaunty.

Linux Kernel 2.6.31-14-generic #46-
All packages updated to Karmic Koala release + updated
Linux Kernel 2.6.31-15 (also) :-(

[ANIMESH (animeshmeher)]

Kernel has been upgraded to 2.6.32.... latest RC7 version
And network has been updated to latest trunk build too.
No it doesnt get stuck at starting but the connecting animation proceeds but does not connect.
Improvement:-).
Please resolve this soon.
Huawei EC168c :- 121d:1412

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Debug logs gathered with latest builds out of PPA as of Nov23. It worked perfectly for me in 9.04 as well.

[ANIMESH (animeshmeher)]

I have been using daily built network manager but without much help.

Hi @Bryan , I dont know how to extract the information and add it to report or triag the bug. so Cudnt do it.
If you can help me.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

@ANIMESH - I just did add all the required debug information, so unless someone asks for more this bug should be good.
I'm going to be watching this bug closely as it is all that is holding back my 9.10 rollout.

For future reference (you shouldn't need to do this for this specific bug), I used this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingModemmanager

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 446146, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[ANIMESH (animeshmeher)]

This bug is mostly because of NM and not a kernel level fault.

I can verify the same.
(using opensuse 11.2 with nm 11.2 . there is no problem)

[Sunil Mekathotti (sbmekathotti)]

Dear all,

I am facing the same problem with my Reliance BB device - C168c (CE0682) in Lucid (10.04 LTS).
was it not fixed yet?

Any work around for this? i can't even install gnome-ppp since there is no alternative net connection for me.

Is there anyway to use PPP from default 10.04 installation other than networkmanager?

-Sunil