Re: QMI support in network-manager-applet

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:37 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 07:56 -0500, dag dg wrote:
> > Ah well that would explain the lack of option. The part that confuses
> > me is the PPP options. When I use libqmi raw by running "qmi-network
> > /dev/cdc-wdm0 start; ifup wwan0" it fires up my adapter via the
> > command line and connects to 4G LTE just fine as wwan0(no ppp). If I
> > use network manager applet it still connect however when I check
> > ifconfig it is showing up as ppp0. From my discussions with another
>
> If you still see ppp0, that means that for some reason ModemManager
> isn't correctly detecting the device and its ethernet interface.  Can
> you run ModemManager with "--debug" and post the output for your device?

Two seconds after I sent this, I remembered that the ModemManager
"Novatel LTE" plugin still doesn't use QMI; it's left over from before
we had QMI support and it's still there because it's used by Google on
some of their devices.  At this point I think we should restrict the
plugin to only the devices that Google uses and leave the rest of them
to QMI.

So to fix all that, "rm /usr/lib64/ModemManager/*novatel-lte*" and
restart MM.

Dan

> Dan
>
> > tech I believe that ppp creates some unneeded overhead for this type
> > of connection, and I'm not even sure if it's connecting via 4G when
> > done through ppp, or that it's even using the /dev/cdc-wdm0 device to
> > grab an IP. Am I missing something? Thanks for the help.
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Marius Kotsbak <marius kotsbak com> wrote:
> > > Japp, it should just work, with the latest ModemManager master version
> > > and the latest Network Manager. You do not see any QMI options in the
> > > menu, but it should work as it does without QMI.
> > >
> > > 2013/5/2 dag dg <dagofthedofg gmail com>:
> > > > I've been poking around the source of the latest Network Manager
> > > > source as I have a 4G LTE WWAN card that uses QMI to connect with.
> > > > From what I can tell it looks like Modem Manager and Network Manager
> > > > have been updated to support QMI, but when I compile and run
> > > > network-manager-applet (shows version 9.9.0) I'm not seeing any QMI
> > > > options. Has the applet not been updated yet? Any help would be
> > > > appreciated, thanks.
> > > >
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