Linux: Silly hobby (Was: 9.10 UNR with AT&T 3G (was: PROBLEM SOLVED (was: THIS SUCKS! 3G problems)))

[art]

slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
> Art wrote:
> Give it some time, I'll bet somebody will figure it out.
> 
> Doug writes:
> Someone already has. You gave me the web site Art. In fact I bet if you 
> pull "qcserial.c" out of a tar.bz2 & UNDERSTAND instructions here: 
> 
> Art wrote:
> And I'm still asking questions, of anybody with experience willing to 
> take the time to answer. At least the wifi worked off the live boot. 

I've been asking one other person with some experience with 9.10 & 3g, 
and I'm quoting part of his response:
"Hmm, there is no reason why it should not work with 9.10 if it works 
with 9.04. The only problems seems the upstart parallel init, sometimes 
loading the firmware using gobi isnt fast enought. But it works if i 
call gobi_loader by hand (sometimes more than once). If he uses the 
network manager to make the ppp connection there is another problem, the 
network manager dont catch up the newly modem-device. I cannot try if 
restart of modem-manager (kill -s SIGHUP `pidof modem-manager`) would 
help, because it isnt my netbook. Its a friend of mine...  :)

And no, the gobi_loader isnt built in, i have compiled it as usual, but 
it works with 9.10 without big problem (as not writte above)."

There is still discussion going on here, although it's about wvdial 
instead of modemmanager, but useful info can be cleaned:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008200&goto=newpost
Art