Re: [MM] grabbing QMI/WDM ports

[Marius Bjørnstad Kotsbak <marius kotsbak gmail com>]

On 11. april 2012 15:11, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > > For anyone interested, there's some work ('qmi-wdm' branch in the
> > > upstream MM tree) to be able to grab qmi/wdm ports, currently just
> > > exposed as raw MMPort objects. Of course, you'll need a device with
> > > such ports (got a Pantech UML290 here) and a recent enough kernel with
> > > Björn's qmi_wwan driver. Any review greatly appreciated, specially
> > > because I used just 1 device for testing it.
> >
> > Great!  I'll see if I can get around to playing with it.  Testing these
> > things tend to take me some time and effort as I'm not used to using NM
> > and MM ;-)
>
> Great, thanks! 

I might also get time to test this as i just received my ZTE 820D modem. 
But I just wonder what the point of doing this is? Is it giving better 
performance or more possibilities (checking signal quality while 
connected?)? The modem works great in Ubuntu 12.04 using the 3.2 kernel 
without the qmi_wwan module (using just option module).

--
Marius