Huawei E169 USB 3G Modem not detected as modem in 7.2

[Gianni]

On 24/ago/09, at 02:47, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 08:05 AM 8/23/2009, Gianni wrote:
>> I've seen a few posts related to the Huawei E169 3G modem which have
>> reported this device as working under 7.2. I have the u3g driver
>> loaded but the modem is only recognised as umass, I tried disabling
>> umass and the device came up as ugen.
>> My 7.2-STABLE is newly built today, log messages below, should this
>> modem work out of the box or is there some extra configuration  
>> needed?
>> Any suggestion much appreciated.
>
>
> Make sure umass is loaded as well as the u3g driver.  Then, after  
> all has booted up, try
> usbdevs -v
> camcontrol eject pass0
> usbdevs
>
> Some devices need that to put them into 'modem mode'... If it works,  
> you should see /dev/cuaU0.0 and you should see a differences in the  
> output of usbdevs before and after the camcontrol eject pass0
>
>        ---Mike

Thanks Mike, unfortunately that did not work, the /dev/cuaU0.0 device  
did not appear.
-Gianni

nicknack# usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb3:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb4:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 addr 3: high speed, self powered, config 1, HUAWEI  
Mobile(0x1446), HUAWEI Technology(0x12d1), rev 0.00
  port 3 powered
  port 4 powered
  port 5 powered
  port 6 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, USB2.0- 
CRW(0x0158), Generic(0x0bda), rev 58.87
  port 7 powered
  port 8 powered
nicknack# camcontrol eject pass0
Unit stopped successfully, Media ejected
nicknack# usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb3:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb4:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),  
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
  port 1 powered
  port 2 addr 3: high speed, self powered, config 1, HUAWEI  
Mobile(0x1446), HUAWEI Technology(0x12d1), rev 0.00
  port 3 powered
  port 4 powered
  port 5 powered
  port 6 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, USB2.0- 
CRW(0x0158), Generic(0x0bda), rev 58.87
  port 7 powered
  port 8 powered