Re: Sierra Wireless MC7750 / MM 0.7.990 / NM 0.9.8

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> > > It took me a little while, but I put together recent builds with the 'aleksander/current-capabilities' 
> > > branch merged back into trunk.  I now have launchpad set up to do daily builds.
> > >
> > > If anyone else is on debian/ubuntu/mint, you can pull the builds from:
> > >
> > > https://code.launchpad.net/~dwa/+archive/network-manager-snapshots
> > >
> > > As for results, this is much better than what I had before.  I am NOT getting the error I used to get 
> > > ("Error: Connection activation failed: The connection was not a 3GPP2 connection.").  So the 
> > > 'aleksander/current-capabilities' branch seems to have fixed this.
> >
> >
> > Good to know. Dan, what's your take on that patch?
>
> I thought we'd merged that already :)  I just looked again, and it still
> looks good.  It's certainly an improvement, the only thing we still need
> to fix is how to handle multi-mode devices that can switch between 3GPP
> and 3GPP2 at runtime (eg, UML290 or UMW190).

Merged that branch to git master.

For the 3GPP vs 3GPP2 issue during runtime, we may end up needing a
SetCurrentCapabilities() method or so :/ And maybe force a reboot of the
module if current capabilities change, so that both the internal state
of the modem (e.g. exposed ifaces) and also the external state (e.g. NM)
get updated accordingly. We already do something very similar with the
Firmware interface and the E396, which allows firmware switching through
QMI.

-- 
Aleksander