Orange 3G modem Alcatel X220 [was: Re: Pelephone 3G modem and NetowrkManager]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:27:35AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> A similar issue: I try to use an Alcatel X220 modem to connect to
> Orange.
> 
> It failed to work before. After providing the driver of that modem, it
> seems to have gottedn support:
> 
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager/commit/?id=79f05cbceca5638dbfef48e5a50bc406ecca5074
> 
> However, it still takes over 2.5 minuted for the modem to get detected
> by NetworkManager/ ModemManager. It does some probing of its own, but no
> modem is made available. It also seems that I need to move away the
> plugin libmm-plugin-longcheer.
> 
> wvdial works well there, and no need for waiting so long.

For the record: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630670

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