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pschulze59

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Registered: 2016-12-09

Posts: 6

Using a LTE-USB-Stick with networkmanager?

Usually I use my USB LTE-stick (Huawai) with a lot of other Linux-Distros, but in Q4OS the networkmanager give no support for it.
Otherwise the stick is detected as device wwp0s......
What can I do to listing and using the device in the networkmanager-applet?

pschulze59

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Registered: 2016-12-09

Posts: 6

Re: Using a LTE-USB-Stick with networkmanager?

Here are some additional informations:

lsusb shows:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard

ifconfig -a shows:

wwp0s16f4u3i3 Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 2e:36:ce:c1:91:07
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

but:

ifup wwp0s16f4u3i3

is not able to do.

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Using a LTE-USB-Stick with networkmanager?

If I recall correctly the interface is already up when it shows in ifconfig.

If your realtek device is built into your laptop, could you disable it and try rebooting to see if it pick up your Huawei device and if it is not built in remove it and reboot to see if it gets configured.

Are you using the default network manager or the one available from the Q4OS software centre?

If you are using tde-network manager it might be worth trying the one available from the Q4OS software centre, it has more capabilities than the default one which may (or may not) make a difference.

pschulze59

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Registered: 2016-12-09

Posts: 6

Re: Using a LTE-USB-Stick with networkmanager?

Thanks for the hint!

At first I thought there failed some frameworks for networkmanager like ppp or so. But when I've installed the failed components it still didn't show the LTE-device.
So I installed the networkmanager from Q4OS-software and this work well with LTE-USB-stick.

Thanks!

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Using a LTE-USB-Stick with networkmanager?

You're welcome, glad it worked for you