Re: While waiting for MBIM support

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> > > 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.

For anyone interested in MBIM/libmbim, we now have a separate mailing list:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libmbim-devel

We also have a place for releases:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim

A new official git repo:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libmbim/libmbim/

And a bugzilla product:
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libmbim


Thanks to fd.o admins for handling all this :)

-- 
Aleksander