How to use Huawei mobile broadband moden E3372 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 Server?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 09:59:26AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 08:58, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:07:50AM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:53:18 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I do not know if I am "using" network manager. I have surely never used a
> > > >command nmcli...
> > > >And it seems not to exist on my *server* (maybe it is a desktop kind of tool?):
> > >
> > > In fact after googling more I found that networkmanager is a Desktop thingie and
> > > does not exist on server installations...
> > >
> > > So what is then my possibility to get this going?
> > >
> > > It seems like the server uses somethiong named "netplan" instead, but I am not
> > > the wiser for that.
> > >
> > You can use NetworkManager from the command line with nmcli.  It's
> > part of Network Manager so just install network-manager and you can
> > use the command line to configure it.
> 
> Is there any advantage to that, rather than using the equivalent
> netplan technique?
> 
I've no idea!  :-)   I was just saying that you could install Network
Manager and use the command line interface, it may be that it would be
easier as the GUI instructions might map onto nmcli OK.

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Chris Green