Huawei with invalid serial not regocnised

[Kalle Valo]

I was contacted by a user which has Huawei E620 (usb id 12d1:1001) and ofono didn't recognise the modem. The modem has garbage as serial and ofono does not initialise the modem:

E: ID_SERIAL=ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ_HUAWEI_Mobile_ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:ffffff:080650:
E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=E620 USB Modem

My Huawei E1552 again has serial as empty (null in ofono) and initialisation succeeds.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

It would be useful if we could have a mechanism for gathering thousands of opt-in users' metadata, to see if this is a common occurrence, and if there are patterns to help us spot it.

[Kalle Valo (kvalo)]

Here's a distro patch which should fix the issue. It also changes ofono to use cdbs.

A test package is here:

https://launchpad.net/~indicator-network-developers/+archive/ppa/+files/ofono_0.26-0ubuntu2~ind2_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/~indicator-network-developers/+archive/ppa/+files/ofono_0.26-0ubuntu2~ind2_i386.deb

(The test package also contains upstart and apport changes.)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks for the patch. We shouldn't convert the package to use CDBS really though. Instead, I'll just update it to source format 3.0, which uses quilt automatically

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ofono - 0.26-0ubuntu2

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ofono (0.26-0ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Kalle Valo <email address hidden> ]
  * Ofono should use upstart (LP: #600503)
    - add debian/ofono.upstart
    - add debian/ofono.preinst
    - remove debian/ofono.init
    - remote debian/ofono.default
  * Add Apport support (LP: #600502)
    - add debian/ofono-crashdb.conf
    - add debian/source_ofono.py
  * Fix LP: #612479 - Huawei with invalid serial not recognised
    - add debian/patches/01-check-that-modem-name-is-valid.patch
    - add debian/patches/series

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
    - add debian/source/format
  * Fix script-in-etc-init.d-not-registered-via-update-rc.d warning
    triggered by shipping the symlink to the upstart job
    - add debian/ofono.lintian-overrides
 -- Kalle Valo <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:21:57 +0100