{"id":230,"date":"2015-01-16T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2020-04-12T06:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T04:43:56","slug":"fedora-21-broadband-connections-not-working-workaround-to-enter-your-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/fedora-21-broadband-connections-not-working-workaround-to-enter-your-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 21 &amp; Broadband connections not working -&gt; Workaround to enter your PIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you running Fedora 21?<br \/>\nAnd are you trying to establish a Broadband Connection?<br \/>\nAnd you can not get it to work?<br \/>\nAnd I used to work nicely under Fedora 19 &amp; 20?<\/p>\n<p>This is caused by the fact you try to establish the connection, and your Gnome desktop does not ask you for your PIN (anymore).<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you have the <strong>nm-connection-editor<\/strong> RPM installed on your system.<\/li>\n<li>sudo nm-connection-editor<\/li>\n<li>Add\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>Mobile Broadband\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>Select the Broadband device\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>Select your Country\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>Select your Provider\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>Select your Billing plan\u00a0\u00a0 [Next]<\/li>\n<li>[Apply]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now the most important thing to make it work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter your <strong>PIN<\/strong> and press\u00a0\u00a0 [Save]<\/li>\n<li>[Close]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now your Mobile Broadband connection should appear on the top-right side of you Gnome desktop.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">OR:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>if you already configured you mobile connection, and you only want to fix the pin: Then use <strong>nm-cli<\/strong> and enter these commands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nmcli connection show<\/li>\n<li><em>Now copy the UUID of your Mobile Broadband connection<\/em><\/li>\n<li>nmcli connection edit &lt;your UUID&gt;<\/li>\n<li>set gsm.pin &lt;your PIN&gt;<\/li>\n<li>save<\/li>\n<li>quit<\/li>\n<li>yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this workaround is useful for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you running Fedora 21? And are you trying to establish a Broadband Connection? And you can not get it to work? And I used to work nicely under Fedora 19 &amp; 20?<\/p>\n<p>This is caused by the fact you try to establish the connection, and your Gnome desktop does not ask you for <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/fedora-21-broadband-connections-not-working-workaround-to-enter-your-pin\/\">Fedora 21 &amp; Broadband connections not working -&gt; Workaround to enter your PIN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}