How to make a Novatel Wireless EVDO Broadband Modem work using Network Manager

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Sunday 23 November 2008 09:34:40 pm Frank Cox wrote:

> However, simply booting up without using the modprobe commands in my
> article doesn't create the /dev/ttyUSB0 device at any time.
>
> In addition, I'm now discovering, the modprobe commands don't create
> the /dev/ttyUSB0 device consistently either.  In fact, while I had this
> working great earlier today and all of yesterday, now I can't get it to
> create the /dev/ttyUSB0 device at all.
 my modem uses the option module udev and hal insert the correct module for 
me.  ive never had any issues getting it working.  full entry from lsusb is 
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 413c:8115 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 5500 Mobile 
Broadband (3G HSDPA) Minicard Modem

Dennis