Mobile broadband doesn't work in utopic (worked in trusty)

[Chris Coulson]

I realized today that I can no longer use the 3G adapter in my laptop since upgrading to utopic. Please find attached a screenshot of the nm-applet menu - you'll notice that my adapter appears to be listed twice ("Mobile Broadband (Dell DW5560)" and "Mobile Broadband ()").

Trying to enable mobile broadband and then clicking on "/234308387636800/context1" (what does that even mean?) results in a rather unhelpful error dialog (see the second screenshot).

Trying to enable mobile broadband and then clicking on "New Mobile Broadband connection..." results in nothing happening except for that menu entry becoming checked. But no internet.

I can't add a connection via "Edit Connections..." because no 3G devices are listed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Nov 12 11:38:30 2014
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-27 (594 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130326)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.6 metric 1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 9
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-16 (26 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2014-11-10T11:46:12.030144
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 ttyACM1 Unknown disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3
 /mbm_0 gsm disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Helpful and informative error dialog when trying to activate "/234308387636800/context1"

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Result of clicking on "New Mobile Broadband connection..."

[Jossh (tomppa97)]

I have same problem with "Huawei E353" Mobile Broadband device.

I found this info from lsusb output:

"ID 12d1:14fe Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd."

There is no "Enable Mobile Broadband" on network applet, so I cannot connect to Mobile network.

When trying to do new network, I cannot see my Huawei E353 on list.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Chris, could you try and remove ofono? It's likely the inclusion of both ofono (from unity8 session stuff) and modemmanager is causing an issue.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Ah, removing ofono (and manually removing /var/lib/ofono afterwards) seems to do the trick

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

I had the same problem and proceeding as in comment #6 plus a reboot also helped me. I have a clean network menu without cryptic entries now and mobile broadband (currently Vivo in Brazil) works reliably.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Probably best solution would be letting the network-manager and ofono packages conflict or preventing ofono of being installed on a desktop )how will convergence work then?).

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Why is this expired? Chris has answered Mathieu's question.