Monday, April 6, 2009

Disable the f*cking PIN code

I just installed Fedora 10 and wo. Everything worked at startup: X.org, sound, network. I didn't have to configure something.

Then I plugged in my Huawei E220 UMTS moden and opened the NetworkManager to enter my username and password.

I tried to connect. NetworkManager asked me for the PIN code. I entered the right one and clicked OK. Nothing happend except the logging in the syslog "Searching for network ...". After some minutes the NetworkManager give up.

Rebooted, enter PIN code in the config dialog. Same problem. Rebooted, maybe currently no network, so I tried it with Ubuntu, no problems.

Why does the thing not work with Fedora ? With Ubuntu there is no problem.

After some time I disabled the PIN code and it worked.

NetworkManager is also unable to handle a SIM card with a PIN code correctly.

My tip: Disabling the f*cking PIN code helps to aviod some troubles ...

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