Thursday, July 10, 2014

Miscellaneous

Yesterday’s UnicodeEncode bug in lino.modlib.beid was not yet correctly fixed. I am shooting from the hip because my Belgian eID card contains only ASCII characters, so I cannot easily test this.

Joe contributed a bugfix for lino.modlib.export_excel.

Converted also the DavLink Makefile to fabfile.py. The logic for building java classes and jars is now in atelier.fablib.JarBuilder.

How to use an EMT netipulk

Trying to use an “EMT netipulk”. When I connect the device, I get a dialog box “SIM PIN unlock required”, enter the PIN, and then I can use the connection (I must manually select it from the network menu).

But sometimes the dialog box doesn’t come, and the Broadcase Network remains disabled. dmesg says:

[  602.203925] usb 3-4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[  602.222177] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=1446
[  602.222184] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  602.222188] usb 3-4: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[  602.222192] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technology
[  602.224088] usb-storage 3-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  602.224232] scsi10 : usb-storage 3-4:1.0
[  602.224410] usb-storage 3-4:1.1: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  602.224557] scsi11 : usb-storage 3-4:1.1
[  603.227006] scsi 10:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage     2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  603.227410] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HUAWEI   SD Storage       2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  603.230046] sr1: scsi-1 drive
[  603.230281] sr 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[  603.230418] sr 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[  603.230842] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[  603.233475] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  603.258606] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: WARN Event TRB for slot 3 ep 2 with no TDs queued?

This is normal except for the last line.