On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:33 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote: > On 07/05/13 17:19, Dan Williams 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. > > But the generic plugin also does AT probing... or is it that NWDMAT > takes longer to reply?
The NWDMAT stuff just takes longer in my experience, at least 3 or 4 retries on the ports. Plus, the QMI devices just have more ports (eg 4 or so) than the non-QMI devices that NWDMAT is useful on, which typically have 2 or 3. > Instead of calling NWDMAT as a custom AT probing method, we could set it > up in a custom_init() instead, and only run it if there is no QMI port > in the device? Yeah, that sounds better. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
