Re: ZTE MF60 3G Modem Not Working with ModemManager/NetworkManager

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen redhat com>]

Hi,

On 2014-03-10 21:51, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > > I've been trying to get a ZTE MF60 3G modem working with MM/NM but even
> > > though recent updates have provided some progress it's still quite not
> > > working. It's not explicitly listed in the page of Supported Devices [1]
> > > so I'm not sure whether there is some fundamental problem with the
> > > device or is this merely a fixable issue somewhere in the stack.
> >
> > Posted an update to the bug, at the moment it looks like the device
> > simply doesn't respond to the StartNetwork request via QMI.  Some of the
> > early hotspots are known not to implement QMI well, but I think we'll
> > want to test with a Gobi 1K (which is also NAS 1.0 and very early QMI)
> > just to make sure that still works.
>
> Yeah, known issue. The MF60 doesn't play well with the WDS service in QMI; see
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libqmi-devel/2012-July/000098.html
>
> Quoting Bjørn:
> "3G connection management is done using the built-in web server.  Does
> not look like it can be managed by QMI.  But many QMI_NAS and QMI_DMS
> commands are supported."
>
> Anyway, I actually delayed QMI support in the ZTE plugin just because
> of this device. MM 1.2 now allows QMI for ZTE devices, but we should
> probably setup that blacklist that we talked about some months ago,
> for devices like this one.

ok, thanks for the pointer and background information, it looks like
this is much more "fundamental problem with the device" than "merely a
fixable issue" then.

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen