3g modem is not recognized as an ethernet device without rebooting
I have two CentOS5 servers with kernel versions 3.4.52 and Huawei e353 usb 3g modem.
When I plug the modem to my server usb_modeswitch runs and I can see the modem as an ethernet device with "ifconfig -a" command on the properly working server.
But other server is not working properly. I can't see any ethernet after I plug the modem device.
- All of servers have the same versions of the usb_modeswitch rpm.
before running usb_modeswitch
working properly not working properly
# lsusb | grep 12d1 # lsusb | grep 12d1 before Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:1f01 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:1f01
after running usb_modeswitch
working properly not working properly # lsusb | grep 12d1 # lsusb | grep 12d1 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:14db Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:14db
working properly not working properly
# rpm -qa | grep modesw # rpm -qa | grep modesw usb_modeswitch-data-20130610-1.lbr usb_modeswitch-data-20130610-1.lbr usb_modeswitch-1.2.6-2 usb_modeswitch-1.2.6-2
- I have compared /etc/udev directories of the two servers with diff but there
isn't any difference
There is an interesting thing about the not properly working server. After I reboot the
server while the usb 3g modem plugged, the modem works properly and I can see
it as an ethernet device with the "ifconfig -a" command. So I thought that if i can
reload udev, I would see the modem as an ethernet device so I run the following commands:
/sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules/sbin/start_udev
But it did not solve the problem. And also I thought that the two servers may have been
builded with different kernel parameters. So I compared the output of "sysctl -a" on each server.
# diff config_workingProperly config_notWorkingProperly -y
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y |CONFIG_TREE_RCU=yCONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y | #CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set
# CONFIG_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK_IRQ is not set |CONFIG_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK is not set |CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK=y
# CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK_IRQ is not set |CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK is not set |CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK=y
# CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQ is not set |CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set |CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=yCONFIG_PREEMPT=y | #CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set |CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_IDE_GD is not set |CONFIG_IDE_GD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set |CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set |CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=yCONFIG_JFS_FS=m | #CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CUSE is not set |CONFIG_CUSE=yCONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m |CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=yCONFIG_UDF_FS=m |CONFIG_UDF_FS=yCONFIG_FAT_FS=m |CONFIG_FAT_FS=yCONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m |CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=yCONFIG_VFAT_FS=m |CONFIG_VFAT_FS=yCONFIG_SQUASHFS=m |CONFIG_SQUASHFS=y
# CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XATTR is not set |CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO is not set |CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO=y
# CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ is not set |CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ=yCONFIG_CRC_ITU_T=m |CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T=y
# CONFIG_RCU_BOOST is not set <
CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK=y <
CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y <
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y <
CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y <
# CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set <
CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS=y <
CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y <
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y <
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER is not set <
>
CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y
>
CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y
> #
CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI is not set
>
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
>
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y
> # CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_IDE_DISK is not set
So what might be causing the problem? Why can't the other server identify my 3g modem as an ethernet device without rebooting?