Re: While waiting for MBIM support

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn mork no>]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com> writes:
> On 04/04/2013 07:48 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > I was hoping to help finishing the MM MBIM support, but have to realize
> > that available spare time is insufficient...  And with no one sponsoring
> > Aleksander's work I guess MBIM just will have to wait.
>
> I just merged the MBIM support in ModemManager git master, which
> requires the libmbim-glib I've been writing in the past months. We're
> still waiting for the new project request in freedesktop.org, so I put
> the tarball in libqmi's release path:
>
>   http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libqmi/libmbim-0.0.1.tar.xz
>
> The libmbim repo is still in gitorious.org:
>   https://gitorious.org/lanedo/libmbim
>
> This libmbim shouldn't be considered stable yet, I guess. There's also a
> mbimcli included in the sources, but didn't spend much time on it.
>
> So far, the support seems to be working nice for all MBIM modems that
> Bjørn has :)

Yes.  Great work! As usual, you work at a speed which makes me
feel...uhmm.. slow :)

I'm impressed, yet again.

AFAICS, the support is already fully functional when it comes to
establishing connections.  So do grab and test if you have a MBIM
capable device!

And if anyone on the list could verify that it works with the Ericsson
H5321gw/F5321gw, also branded as Dell 5560, then that would be greatly
appreciated.  This device seems to be common in some newer Lenovo and
Dell laptops, and is the only one I know of which implements the "NCM
backwards compatibility" solution.  Which really makes it *more*
difficult to support because it ends up requiring userspace support for
both NCM and MBIM to avoid failing if the system selects the "wrong"
protocol.


Bjørn