Re: Verizon/Novatel USB551L support?

[Jason Antman <jason jasonantman com>]

On 05/06/2013 02:55 AM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey Jason,
>
> > I have a Verizon/Novatel USB551L 4G/LTE (with CDMA 3G fallback) that I'm
> > trying to get working. I'm running Fedora 18 (kernel
> > 3.8.4-202.fc18.x86_64) with NetworkManager 0.9.8.0 and ModemManager
> > 0.6.0.0. With these versions the modem doesn't seem to get detected
> > correctly. The only thing I can find about NM/MM and this device is
> > commit 463de46e on April 17th of this year by Dan Williams, with a
> > comment of "novatel: ignore USB551L / Just like the E362, which the
> > USB551L is quite similar to." which adds the USB ID to
> > forbidden_products for in mm-plugin-novatel.
> >
> > I use KNetworkManager as a frontend, and when I plug in the device, it
> > appears to be recognized but when I attempt to add a connection, my only
> > option is "Installed CDMA Device". I've tried adding a CDMA connection
> > with no luck, and NM (or at least KNM) doesn't seem to know anything
> > about the LTE.
> >
> > Does anyone have this device working? If not, devs, I can open a bug
> > report and provide NM and MM debug output, lsusb, etc. My C skills are
> > pretty poor (virtually nonexistent), but I'm willing to provide any
> > assistance that I can to get this working properly.
> You should probably try to use ModemManager >= 0.7.x or directly compile
> git master. I've got some (old) packages for F18 x86_64 here, which you
> may give a try:
>
> http://www.lanedo.com/~aleksander/fedora-packages/20130306/
Aleks,

Thanks so much. I gave those packages a shot, but there seems to be an 
unsatisfied dependency for libmm-glib.so.0 (even though there doesn't 
appear to be anything currently on my system that provides that). Is 
there any chance you have spec files for those so I can try the build 
myself with the latest git master? I'd try local compile, but I 
absolutely need my laptop working this afternoon, so I need to have a 
good, safe rollback plan.

Thanks again,
Jason