Re: QMI support in network-manager-applet

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:04 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> On 07/05/13 17:02, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 09:13 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > > On 06/05/13 23:38, dag dg wrote:
> > > > Ok here's the output of modem manager in debug, I've removed all the
> > > > novatel drivers and compiled them(Modem Manager, Network Manager,
> > > > nm-applet) in the order that Dan recommended. The output is a bit
> > > > lengthy so I've attached it as a text document.
> > >
> > > Are you able to test with the new "aleksander/novatel-fixes" branch from
> > > git? The main problem was that the Novatel plugin didn't allow QMI
> > > modems yet, it should allow them now.
> > >
> > > Dan, quick review of the branch?
> >
> > Do we want those driven by Novatel or by Generic though?
>
> If we can grab them by the Novatel plugin, I think we should. We don't
> want all QMI modems to be handled by the Generic plugin, as that would
> mean handling all QMI modems with QMI... and I don't think we should do
> that e.g. for ZTE QMI modems (which are not handled with QMI currently,
> as they suck).

The branch works and is fine, but the problem with using the Novatel
plugin is that it takes a lot longer to probe than the Generic one, due
to the $NWDMAT=1 stuff that the plugin does, which is completely
unecessary on the QMI-capable devices.  I'm not sure there's a good way
to suppress that given that we're not sure if the modem has a QMI port
at the time we send the DMAT=1 stuff.

Dan