NetworkManager can't connect D02HW to eMobile (Japan)

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

This D02HW is a Chinese-made USB device, but will not connect through NetworkManager. I've been told that eMobile has configured their network in such a way that this problem affects many of the other devices they supply for use with their wireless network. (The eMobile support people are not very competent or even interested in providing support, so based on prior experiences, I never asked them about it and recommend against wasting your time in the attempt. Heck, I'm planning to cancel my eMobile contract as soon as the penalty clause expires next year.)

The device does work with pon, as documented in various places, but to make it work with NetworkManager required a few changes in the 10-modem.fdi file. Basically I added this line:

<append key="modem.command_sets" type="strlist">IS-707-A</append>

That was right after the ID for the device:
<match <email address hidden>:usb.product_id" int="0x1003">
<match <email address hidden>:usb.interface.number" int="0">

There were two other command_sets lines there, and I commented them out when it didn't work on the first attempts. However, the Japanese webpage http://d.hatena.ne.jp/munetoh/20081121 where I got this fix doesn't seem to say anything about needing to comment out those command_sets (but I don't read Japanese all that well). (Thanks and a tip of the hat to Munetoh-san.)