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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:21 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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.

Again, that's what's already on tap in the development version,  but I
don't feel comfortable changing that in the about-to-be-released stable
version yet, though it's clearly what should be done for the stable
branch after that release.

Dan