Modem not recognized as such

[Member foringmar]

Hi!

I have tried Antix, both 19.3. and 21, on several occasions.
On thing puts me off.
Everyting else works just fine, but my dongle is not recognized as such.
The system thinks it is a CD, but there it is. It’s not recognized as a modem.
I’ve tried to use modemmanager, which helped on another distro.
Nope. Not on Antix.
After poking around on the net I learned how to identify it.
It’s a Huawei E353 modem.

Any suggestions anyone??

Ingmar Forne
Finland

[Member Robin]

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foringmar wrote:

my dongle is not recognized as such

Our chrystall ball is sent in for repair recently, so please let us know what type of connection and system we are talking about.

1.) Let us know your inxi output (e.g. from antiX control center)
2.) What type of connection does your dongle use? Is it a Firewire, parallel port, RS232 or USB or what else?
3.) What does the command
dmesg | tail -n 60
show you immediately after having plugged your device.
Depending on the findings from these commands you’ll need to perform additional checks, like e.g. lsusb or lsmod to find out which drivers have been loaded for the device.
Only knowing about these details we can try to help.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi Robin, still unable to put my answer here because forum blocks me.
I sent a PM to the poster pointing him to a howto,

The modem is a USB dongle, it has to be put in to the correct mode, usualy using the device interface to be recognised.
otherwise it shows up as storage only, often as a cd.
I will try again to post, was furious yesterday. First came post is spam then I had posted too often on the forum.

All longer term members know background, what and why but it is very frustrating all the same.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by ModdIt.

[Member ModdIt]

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My chrystal ball worked 🙂 Actually MetaGer.

Yesterday unable to post… This was sent as as PM to the poster foringmar

Maybe the instructions on below site will help, seems you need to switch the device in to modem mode.
https://www.hackster.io/hologram/working-with-hilink-mode-on-the-huawei-e303-353-58ab21

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by ModdIt.

[Member foringmar]

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1) That I dont understand. How do I get that?
2) The modem is connected via USB
3) This is a long one. Here:
[ 95.052468] option 2-1.3:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 95.052552] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 95.052573] option 2-1.3:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 95.052646] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 95.074262] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3: cdc-wdm0: USB WDM device
[ 95.074677] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: register ‘qmi_wwan’ at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device, 22:49:0c:b2:6f:88
[ 95.074754] usbcore: registered new interface driver qmi_wwan
[ 95.363109] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 95.363266] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI TF CARD Storage PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 95.363832] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 95.367653] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr2] scsi-1 drive
[ 95.367806] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2
[ 95.367889] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[ 95.368153] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 106.122010] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 106.123045] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 284.966376] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 284.966681] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 284.966717] option 2-1.3:1.0: device disconnected
[ 284.967040] option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
[ 284.967074] option 2-1.3:1.1: device disconnected
[ 284.967454] option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
[ 284.967493] option 2-1.3:1.2: device disconnected
[ 284.967601] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: unregister ‘qmi_wwan’ usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device
[ 291.015231] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 291.100090] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=151a
[ 291.100093] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 291.100096] usb 2-1.3: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[ 291.100098] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies
[ 291.222125] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 291.222292] scsi host8: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0
[ 291.222541] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.1: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 291.222691] scsi host9: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.1
[ 291.896498] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 295.486564] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 295.571177] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=151e
[ 295.571182] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=4, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
[ 295.571185] usb 2-1.3: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[ 295.571187] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies
[ 295.693359] option 2-1.3:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.693589] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 295.693782] option 2-1.3:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.694022] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 295.694165] option 2-1.3:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.694356] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 295.696325] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3: cdc-wdm0: USB WDM device
[ 295.696869] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: register ‘qmi_wwan’ at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device, 2e:a5:67:03:af:6e
[ 295.697168] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.5: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 295.697953] scsi host8: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.5
[ 295.698214] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.6: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 295.698345] scsi host9: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.6
[ 296.744321] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI TF CARD Storage PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 296.744458] scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 296.744851] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 296.750968] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 296.751051] sr 8:0:0:0: [sr3] scsi-1 drive
[ 296.751328] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr3
[ 296.751492] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[ 307.473403] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 307.474402] ISOFS: changing to secondary root

I have tried modem manager, which works on other distributions, like q4os. It does find the modem on Antix. First it ask for PIN. Thats normal,
Then it says “modem must be enabled to connect to internet. Please enable modem”. Clicking on “Enable” does absolutely nothing.

Ingmar

[Member foringmar]

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lsusb gives

Bus 002 Device 007: ID 12d1:151e Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[Member ModdIt]

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“modem must be enabled to connect to internet. Please enable modem”

Which is explained in detail for your device on the site I linked to, which by the way took less than 2 minutes to find using a search engine.
When you have followed the instructions on that site you should have a working connection..

If you read your long post you can see that the system keeps switching between modem and mass storage for the dongle.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by ModdIt.

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