Can't use modem USB after upgrade to F17

[shinjiyuubix]

Hi..... this is my 1st post and i'm just new fedora user.

About 2 day ago I installed F16, it very well, and then upgrade it to F17 with preupgade (CMIIW).

unfortunately my modem, huawei ec167, doesn't work. Which is work very well on F16. I don't know what I must to do. I paste lsusb and usb_modeswitch.

Any reply are welcome and thank you so much.

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 12d1:140c Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.


# usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 140c -H

Looking for default devices ...
found matching product ID
adding device
Found device in default mode, class or configuration (1)
Accessing device 005 on bus 002 ...
Getting the current device configuration ...
OK, got current device configuration (1)
Using first interface: 0x00
Using endpoints 0x02 (out) and 0x82 (in)
Not a storage device, skipping SCSI inquiry

USB description data (for identification)
-------------------------
Manufacturer: HUA�WEI TECHNOLOGIES
Product: HUAWEI Mobile
Serial No.: �������������������
-------------------------
Sending Huawei control message ...
OK, Huawei control message sent
-> Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye.

[beerandsmokes]

Apa kabar mate

I've had the same thing happened to me (used Fedora 15 for a year and had no problems. Installed Fedora 17, and get your errors).

Not sure what is going on with usb_modeswitch. Looks like it changed it's functionality going from 1.1.7 to 1.2.x (or whatever it is on F17). I also noticed that the wvdial utlity I use to dialup crashes when I run it. Note: it's the same version at the Fedora binary.

Anyway, this is how I got my Fedora 17 system going:

Uninstalled usb_modeswitch, usb_modeswitch-data, wvdial, and libwvstreams (using rpm -e --nodeps <package>)

I then installed the same packages, but from my Fedora 15 DVD:

rpm -U --nodeps usb_modeswitch-data-20110227-1.fc15.noarch.rpm
rpm -U usb_modeswitch-1.1.7-1.fc15.i686.rpm
rpm -U libwvstreams-4.6.1-3.fc15.i686.rpm
rpm -U wvdial-1.61-4.fc15.i686.rpm

You'll be able to get the above RPMs off the internet. A google will sort you out

As somebody mentioned on another forum (responding to a similar question), you probably don't need usb_modeswitch, as the USB doogle is already in modem mode... but this older version of usb_modeswitch gives udev the behaviour it expects and makes udev setup a nice /dev/gsmmodem special device.

Anyway. hope that helps

I'm using F17 with my Huawei dongle as I type

J

[shinjiyuubix]

Kabarku baik-baik saja

Thx for your replay.
Are you sure those rpm can be downloaded with google??? Am I get error dependencies if I download them & installing as you mention? I can't try now cause my low connection. I'll do at internet cafe, but they use Windows.

Anyway, have you ever came to Bali or Jakarta? *I just surprised when you said "Apa kabar mate?"
Thanks a lot.

[beerandsmokes]

I'm guessing those RPM's are on the net (Let me have a look).

These rpm's are independant (ie: they only effect themselves), so by removing the existing (newer) libraries/applications, and installing the older libraries/apps, you aren't going to break your system.

I learnt Javanese at school when I used to live in Northern Australia (it was circumulum). It was a very ago time ago though, and I have fogotten nearly everything accept a few greetings. Never been to Indonesia. Not many indonesians in Australia to practice the langauge.

---------- Post added at 07:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:47 PM ----------

Here you go. I found them on the net (mostly on pbone, which is a good RPM site). I recommend using "wget" to download them.

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/l...c15.noarch.rpm

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/l....fc15.i686.rpm

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/l....fc15.i686.rpm

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/l....fc15.i686.rpm

These are small files. All of these in total are under a 1MB to download, so it won't kill your network bandwidth.

633K libwvstreams-4.6.1-3.fc15.i686.rpm
53K usb_modeswitch-1.1.7-1.fc15.i686.rpm
45K usb_modeswitch-data-20110227-1.fc15.noarch.rpm
103K wvdial-1.61-4.fc15.i686.rpm

Happy mod'ing !

J

[byjuabraham]

I am facing the same issue after upgrading to f17.
Tried the above fix. It is still not working.