[SOLVED] seeking chip on my network card for usb device e353 wireless dongle

textillis · 05-18-2013, 04:01 AM

But when I followed instructions for use of <lsusb>,
I get this output:

Code:

bash-4.2# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b3:310c IBM Corp. Wheel Mouse
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04b3:3025 IBM Corp. NetVista Full Width Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
bash-4.2#

I'm then told that I should be able to glean from above output information about the chip on my card and an address for the card, as described below:

Code:

Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 1 Device 2: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 1 Device 4: ID 0000:0000
Bus 1 Device 3: ID 083a:4505 Accton Technology Corp.
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 5 Device 1: ID 0000:0000

One can see at once that the author of the advice can indeed obtain the following:
" the really important piece of information is the ID number.
In my case, it is 083a:4505"

But if you compare his output to mine at top of post, you see immediately the difference: to wit: there is no ID number given for my network card.

Question: how do proceed?
thx
Tex (making like a snail surveying its new domain: the Sequoia tree that is Slackware)

druuna · 05-18-2013, 04:09 AM

This might be your dongle:

Quote:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard

To make sure: Unplug your dongle and run lsusb. If I'm correct then the line mentioned will be gone and if you plug it in again it will re-appear (do give it a little time before running lsusb).

If the line I mentioned is not your dongle then check the output of dmesg (a few seconds after plugging in the dongle) to see if anything is picked up by your system.

textillis · 05-18-2013, 05:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna

This might be your dongle:

To make sure: Unplug your dongle and run lsusb. If I'm correct then the line mentioned will be gone and if you plug it in again it will re-appear (do give it a little time before running lsusb).

If the line I mentioned is not your dongle then check the output of dmesg (a few seconds after plugging in the dongle) to see if anything is picked up by your system.

Thanks friend! You have made me look at the original output with fresh eyes!
I was looking for an entry for the card AFTER the entry for my huawei device, and missed the fact that the ID is there,
in the same line.
(I was thrown by the fact that in the output given in the helpfile i was using, the two entries were consecqutive and not together, as in mine)

thks kindly,
Tex

druuna · 05-18-2013, 05:33 AM

Can you put up the [SOLVED] tag.
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