Sierra Wireless USB 308
Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux. I did an install of Ubuntu 10.04 recently, and initially the Sierra USB thingy was working fine, but then it stopped. Fiddled around a little and I eventually got it to work again (I'm not sure that anything I did was actually responsible for this) but apparently it stopped working again shortly after I left. A few weeks later I upgraded all the packages, something I hadn't done during the install, and the device started working again. I rebooted the machine several times and each time the connection came up reliably soon after I connected the device. Now it's not working again. It's not working on my Debian machine either. But it works perfectly in any windows machine every single time, and I've carefully checked the APN, authentication and compression settings and made them the same under Linux (PAP only, no compression anywhere) but still no worky. Any suggestions?
On 18 March 2012 09:31, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux.
Any suggestions?
Does this device also load as a USB stick? If it does, may a race condition is developing between loading as a communications device or a storage device. Chris
Hmm, I might try turning off the faux-CDROM feature, but I suspect it won't help. What's happening is that it does get detected as a 3G network adapter, looks as if it's about to connect with little green whirly and all, but then after a few seconds it says disconnected again. Also (inconsistently) sometimes the checkbox for "Enable Mobile Network" becomes unchecked and is impossible to turn back on. But the owner is about to travel to Australia so I've decided probably the easiest thing is to put the original Windows back on, which solves the wireless problem and also means it'll be easier for her to get support in general. At least it'll be a clean install and not the broken mess I was originally presented with. On 19 March 2012 15:39, Chris O'Halloran <cmoman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 March 2012 09:31, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux.
Any suggestions?
Does this device also load as a USB stick?
If it does, may a race condition is developing between loading as a communications device or a storage device.
Chris
_______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
participants (2)
-
Bruce Kingsbury -
Chris O'Halloran