Bug 583656 - Network manager should depend on usb_modeswitch
Summary: Network manager should depend on usb_modeswitch
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 586579
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-19 10:37 UTC by Lapo Calamandrei
Modified: 2010-05-04 19:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-05-04 19:21:03 UTC
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Description Lapo Calamandrei 2010-04-19 10:37:38 UTC 
Plugging a "ZeroCD" wwan modem just make the storage part to be mounted. The modem part doesn't get recognized without usb_modeswitch (and usb_modeswitch-data) installed. NM should depend on those packages or most wwan modems won't work.
Comment 1 Ulrich Drepper 2010-05-04 13:45:24 UTC 
I agree, with usb_modeswitch some devices "just work".  I had to search the web quite a bit to get a Huawei stick to work and stumbled first across all kinds of wrong/outdated "solutions" (like using a NDIS driver, shudder...).  For someone less experienced this would have been quite frustrating.  With usb_modeswitch installed the process would have been simpler than with windows.
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-05-04 19:21:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 586579 ***
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