Re: Modemmanager - how to send sms? - receiving is ok

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

Hi Dan,

> > I tried the sms-send.py from the master branch (cloned 5 days ago, no changes in the repo), with Huawei E173s-2 modem and I got Operation not allowed error message. Receiving info and sms are ok with the python scripts.
> > 
> > I attached the gammu log, which was able to send sms, to analyze and fix the issue with this kind of modem.
> > 
> > Anyway, with that modem we must set usbserial via modprobe, using vendor/product id, otherwise it does not recognised as modem.
> > 
> > Is that possible to fix this issue into MM_05 and/or master branch?
> 
> Yeah, I thought the issue was that it doesn't like text mode, while
> gammu uses PDU mode, and we were going to fix MM to fall back to PDU
> mode if it was supported and text mode failed.  But that fix isn't quite
> in yet.

a serious piece of advise, go for PDU by default and only fall back to
text mode if you can't do PDU. Text mode on almost every modern modem is
horrible broken.

Regards

Marcel