[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#640663: network-manager: Huawei mobile internet for Vodafone in Greece requires extra init string

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi! I am a subscriber (contract) to the Vodafone network in Greece.

My modem is a Huawei USB modem (unsure of the model) with idVendor=0x12d1 and
idProduct=0x14c9.

The connection works with NetworkManager if and only if I write the init string
"ATQ0 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2" to /dev/ttyUSB0.

Could NetworkManager be configured with rules (based on modem type and
country/provider) to take care of this automatically? I have spent quite a lot
of time Googling for this information, and I imagine it would be a joy for new
users to have their connection work automatically.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.113       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.4.14-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.13-16     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.14-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.94-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.6-9     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.12.7-8    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               172-1       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-7       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.102-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.19.1-5    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         172-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.7.3-3     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.57-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.12-1   administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager                  0.5-1      D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policykit-1                   0.102-1    framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                           2.4.5-5    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information