Eric D. Schabell: Fedora 12 NetworkManager update breaking GSM connection

Monday, March 8, 2010

Fedora 12 NetworkManager update breaking GSM connection

My latest Fedora 12 update broke my Mobile Broadband GSM connection. I kept seeing this in my message log:


6516 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0)
6517 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
6518 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
6519 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 4 -> 6 (reason 0)
6520 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
6521 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
6522 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
6523 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 6 -> 4 (reason 0)
6524 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
6525 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost modem-manager: (ttyHS2) opening serial device...
6526 Mar  8 12:22:49 localhost modem-manager: Modem /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0: state changed (disabled -> enabling)
6527 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost modem-manager: Modem /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0: state changed (enabling -> enabled)
6528 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost modem-manager: Modem /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0: state changed (enabled -> disabled)
6529 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 4 -> 3 (reason 0)
6530 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): deactivating device (reason: 0).
6531 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   stage1_enable_done(): GSM modem enable failed: (32) SIM PIN required
6532 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 3 -> 9 (reason 0)
6533 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   Activation (hso0) failed.
6534 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
6535 Mar  8 12:22:50 localhost NetworkManager:   (hso0): deactivating device (reason: 0).

The key here was the line:
  stage1_enable_done(): GSM modem enable failed: (32) SIM PIN required

Some looking around and it appears that the last update to NetworkManager broke it:

Name : NetworkManager
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 0.7.998
Release : 2.git20100106.fc12

A simple downgrade will fix this to back you up to the previous version, here is mine:

Name : NetworkManager
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 0.7.996
Release : 6.git20091021.fc12

To do this you use the following command:

$ sudo yum downgrade NetworkManager

Restarted and the GSM card worked as advertised!

============== UPDATE 02 April 2010 =========================
See Bugzilla on this for solution of upgrading the NetworkManager and ModemManager packages
to the versions found in the test repo:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560742
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/12/

1 comment:

  1. You can follow the progress in Bugzilla on this one here:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560742

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