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Re: internal 3g modem


From: Divan Santana
Subject: Re: internal 3g modem
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:59:41 +0200

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :)
>>
>> I'm trying to get the internal 3g modem to work in my Dell laptop
>> running guix.
>> […]
>> I think this is the internal modem device:
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:81b6 Dell Computer Corp. DW5811e Snapdragon™ 
>> X7 LTE
>
> ModemManager has a list of supported devices.  Your modem is not
> listed there, but older similar modems “Should work”, it says.  Did it
> work on another distro before?
>
> I have no experience with dial-up modems, but apparently ppp can be
> used somehow to connect with those.  Network-manager can be made to
> use ppp, but I do not know if that works in Guix right now.

Good point. I booted up a live ubuntu 18.08.3 disk and it detected the
modem and just worked.

I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot this further. I'll have a think
about it.



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