On Wed, 6 Sept 2023 at 20:22, Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was reading through some of the online documentations as I try to bring up > a 5G modem w/ Verizon and modemmanager, and bounced between various settings > (it's a Quectel EM120R-GL modem for the moment until something better > arrives), trying to decide if I wanted to use QMI or MBIM, if I should use > the "qui" protocol directly or "modemmanager" instead... And thought it would > be nice to have 2 or 3 groups of meta packages that you select and the rest > gets taken care of for you by dependencies. > > In particular: > > https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/wwan/ltedongle > > Talks about kmod's and user-space tools necessary for QMI, different packages > necessary for MBIM, and then what's needed for NCM (anyone still using that > or 3G)... > > General debugging tools like minicom so you don't need to use "echo" or > "socat"... > > Before I start on the effort (shouldn't take more than a couple of hours), > does anyone object to the project (or conversely, is anyone willing to review > and sign-off on it)?
I would find this rather useful, to have meta-packages for modems instead of having to select everything manually. I am working on RM520N-GL support at work (For QSDK, dont ask why) and I am not sure whether I want to use the mess called Quectel CM(Vendor tool) or modemmanager. Regards, Robert > > Eckert: thanks for the quick turnaround on the MBIM-disabled issue when > building modemmanager... > > If anyone is wondering, no, I still don't have wireless up... not sure if > that hardware is in a weird persistent state (a lot of settings get saved to > NVRAM) or if modemmanager doesn't handle certain corner cases (although > Verizon on a Quectel EM120R-GL using QMI would seem to be pretty mainstream). > Please reach out to me if you have any troubleshooting suggestions, and I'll > update the docs appropriately when I'm done. > > Thanks, > > -Philip > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
