Huawei E870 refuses to reconnect (on Natty)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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modemmanager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
During my travel in train I was first in an area cover by 3G signal of my operator. Then I got into an area with only a 2G (GPRS or EDGE) signal. Afterwards I moved into an area without any GSM signal of my operator. Or at least my modem disconnected me. OK, that's expected in such areas.
In a minute or two I again entered area with 3G (indicated by blue LED blinking on the modem). I went on the NetworkManager icon and clicked on the connection name. I expected to be connected. Instead of it I just got message "Orange, you are now disconnected" or something like. (It was the kind of message which appear for few seconds in the upper right corner of desktop as a dark rectangle with text message.)
I tried again and again but it did not help and each time I got the message about the disconnected status. I stress that I was still in an area cover by a usable signal.
The only thing which helped to make a connection was to physically remove the modem (from the PC Express slot) and reinsert it into the slot. Then however I had to enter my PIN and only after accepting my PIN I could succesfully click on the NetworkManager connection name (i.e. I finally got the connection).
In my opinion it is unacceptable that user is forced to remove and reinsert the modem card and enter his/her PIN at every time when connection is lost due to weak signal.
Finally, I observed this behaviour reproducibly, at least two times during my travel.
My notebook is a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V3205 (a 32-bit notebook) with ubuntu 11.04.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: modemmanager 0.4+git.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 13 21:33:52 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: modemmanager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.