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

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander aleksander es>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen redhat com> wrote:
> 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.


Does the modem expose a tty as well? The fallback of course is to make
it use AT+PPP instead of QMI; which is the purpose of the blacklist
suggested here.

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Aleksander
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