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My SIM card is stuck inside the slot of my laptop and I can't get it out without causing further damage to my laptop.

Every time I log in gnome-shell prompts me for the PIN. Whether I am about to use it or not.

On my phone I know I can disable the PIN altogether so that it doesn't get requested again (even if place the SIM card on another device). How can I do the same in Ubuntu?

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I don't have a piece of hardware like this on my computer to test with. Do you know the name of the daemon that is prompting for your password? Try sudo pstree while it is present and looking for something that might look like it. From there we might be able to alter it's config, uninstall it, or disable the hardware – Huckle May 28 '12 at 5:09
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This is bug #704123 marked as `fix released'. As a bug report this is off topic here. – Takkat May 28 '12 at 6:44
@Takkat, how is this a bug-report? I am asking for a workaround. I am on 11.10 – d_inevitable May 28 '12 at 15:41
@Huckle I suppose that would be NetworkManager. – d_inevitable May 28 '12 at 15:48
@d_inevitable: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1317/… – Takkat May 28 '12 at 20:21
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Usually one would take the sim card put it in a phone and change the pin code to 0000. which effectively disabled the pin. I don't know of any way you can change the pin of a sim card through the 3g modem in your laptop somehow. But if you can that would be the way

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You can disable PIN checking using the built in GSM modem as described here.

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That looks promising, but how do I determine the path of the modem? After all it is inbuilt and I cannot unplug it. – d_inevitable Jan 20 at 3:20

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