I was working on Debian stable=wheezy until last week. Using my Surfstick was fine - configured by network-Manager. After updating to jessie I'm not able to connect.
The stick is properly found.
lsusb shows
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 19d2:2002 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM
nmcli results in
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Status von NetworkManager
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STATUS KONNEKTIVITÄT WLAN-HW WLAN WWAN-HW WWAN
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nicht verbunden kein aktiviert aktiviert aktiviert aktiviert
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Status der Geräte
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GERÄT TYP STATUS VERBINDUNG
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cdc-wdm0 gsm nicht verbunden --
eth0 ethernet nicht verfügbar --
lo loopback nicht verwaltet --
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Funkschalter
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WLAN-HW WLAN WWAN-HW WWAN
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aktiviert aktiviert aktiviert aktiviert
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NetworkManager Verbindungsprofile
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NAME UUID TYP GERÄT
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Vodafone Vorgabe 658660a8-5801-4d6c-968b-de67634bd566 gsm --
Kabelgebundene Verbindung 1 d7f13745-d46d-4bb8-9a58-1629b5436441 802-3-ethernet --
The connection could not be established.
Neither via nmcli nor by gnome-app nor by wvdial.
After many tries I found a solution (at least for me): It seems, there is a problem with PIN-locked SIM-Cards.
After setting up the GSM-Connection via the GUI nothing happended (seemed so). But a file for the connection in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/has been created.By disabling the PIN of the SIM-Card or by inserting a
pin=####(of course replace by you PIN) line into the connection profile worked fine.For further help, I`ll show my file over here: