#10513 NORM Not Tri: Sugar does not spot USB 3G modem while Gnome does

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#10513: Sugar does not spot USB 3G modem while Gnome does
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           Reporter:  greenfeld        |       Owner:  dsd                              
               Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  network manager  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  diagnose         |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by greenfeld):

 Part of the problem is that we are almost concurrently grabbing a release
 of Fedora to use as our base as soon as a new modem hits the market.  So
 by the time Fedora is updated to recognize something we do not necessarily
 benefit.

 And given the short sales lifespans of cellular products, the overlap
 between what we support with an XO release and what products on the market
 are available to work with it is not necessarily the best.

 Anyways, this is a curious case because I can manually expose the modem so
 the kernel spots it and loads the appropriate driver to get the ttyUSB
 ports.  Network manager seems to spot it as Gnome is willing to work with
 it as a PPP-based Mobile Broadband device.  But Sugar does not get the
 hint from Network Manager that the 3G device is available.

 At the moment I would like to at least make sure that 10.1.3 still works
 with the 3G modem models used by deployments.  Beyond that it might be
 worth seeing why this particular case differs between Gnome & Sugar.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10513#comment:3>
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