How to use Huawei mobile broadband moden E3372 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 Server?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 08:58, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:07:50AM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:53:18 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I do not know if I am "using" network manager. I have surely never used a
> > >command nmcli...
> > >And it seems not to exist on my *server* (maybe it is a desktop kind of tool?):
> >
> > In fact after googling more I found that networkmanager is a Desktop thingie and
> > does not exist on server installations...
> >
> > So what is then my possibility to get this going?
> >
> > It seems like the server uses somethiong named "netplan" instead, but I am not
> > the wiser for that.
> >
> You can use NetworkManager from the command line with nmcli.  It's
> part of Network Manager so just install network-manager and you can
> use the command line to configure it.

Is there any advantage to that, rather than using the equivalent
netplan technique?

Colin