Huawei ME906s does not connect

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de> wrote:
>> mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
>
> I see one of two different errors:
>
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'unknown error'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'Timeout was reached'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'unknown error'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'Timeout was reached'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'Timeout was reached'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'unknown error'
> $ mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan
> error: couldn't scan networks in the modem: 'unknown error'
>
>> and see if you get any results too.  At this point, do we even know if
>> the modem can see anything?  You might check the antenna connections;
>> we have had bad antenna connections happen before.  Especially since it
>> still doesn't work in Windows 10.
>
> I'll try updating the Windows drivers, but I concur that this looks like
> a hardware defect. Is there any command to determine what networks the
> card sees?

Yeah, there is: mmcli -m 0 --3gpp-scan :)

For the timeout error you likely can just use a longer timeout in the
mmcli call with --timeout=N, but I suspect that will anyway end up
returning "unknown error" after that.

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Aleksander
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