GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 651404
USB networking doesn't work anymore
Last modified: 2012-02-10 12:41:46 UTC
After upgrading to GNOME3 the network manager has been unable to even notice usb networking devices. When I connect my N900 to any of my computers running GNOME3 nothing happens. With GNOME2 it automatically connected to it and I could see usb0 interface from ifconfig.
please, http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging
Information: http://pastebin.com/d23FQeQ6
The N900 really does need to be a modem and AFAIK you can't use the cdc_ether interface without setting things up via the ACM interface first. I have an n900 that I use very regularly and it works great using ModemManager. Did you install some addons that make the N900 expose a real cdc_ether device with DHCP server capability or something?
Laasonen, can you please respond to comment#3 ?
I don't have a N900 anymore, but I used to use something like this with it: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # iptables -t nat -F POSTROUTING # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o gprs0 -j MASQUERADE # ifup usb0 # dnsmasq -I lo -z -a 192.168.3.15 -F 192.168.3.64,192.168.3.127 My laptop with networkmanager 0.9.2.0-1 currently connects to my N950 without any issues on SDK-mode: http://hosted.laasonen.net/gnome-works-n950.png
We can't get more information as reporter doesn't have device anymore and with N950, it is working as expected.