Sierra Wireless (Dell Wireless 5570 HSPA+ (42Mbps) Mobile Broadband Card)

[Bjørn Mork]

I'm semi-offline at the moment, having only occasional gsm edge access... And I see that the post I was thinking of only contains the least interesting part of the equation.  It is focused on the (for me) new and exciting usb comp qmi messages.

I do have more details on my laptop, but I won't have access to that for a few weeks. 

Anyway, here is a start (with a non obvious subject):
lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libqmi-devel/2015-February/001104.html

Using the mbim service mentioned there to send the qmi fcc message Aleksander has documented in libqmi should make this modem work in mbim mode too.

You might have more success than me googling.


Bjørn

On July 11, 2015 6:31:06 PM CEST, Bartosz Nitkiewicz <bartosz at nitkiewicz.eu> wrote:
>Very interesting. Could you paste a link? I don't know where to find
>it.
>This modem is very problematic. Working fine but after reboot not
>working
>at all. Another reboot and once again mm could "see" it...
>10 lip 2015 7:40 PM "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn at mork.no> napisał(a):
>
>> I'm pretty sure the fcc thing is possible with qmi embedded in mbim.
>See
>> my recent experments with the usb comp commands.
>>
>> Testing it is pretty straight forward, since you only append your
>prepared
>> qmi messages to mbim. Or seeing it the other way:prepend an mbim
>header to
>> qmi messages.
>>
>> It would be interesting to know whether this is the method used by
>> windows, or if there is some more direct mbim service/cid for this.
>So if
>> anyone can snoop..
>>
>>
>>
>> Bjørn
>>
>> On July 10, 2015 6:00:05 PM CEST, Aleksander Morgado <
>> aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:
>> >On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bartosz Nitkiewicz
>> ><bartosz at nitkiewicz.eu> wrote:
>> >> I have problem with my modem. It can't connect or enable.
>> >>
>> >>  mmcli -m 0
>> >>
>> >> /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 (device id
>> >> '5c7d03243a4f66003876aab95834e2bbb9ca67ca')
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Hardware |   manufacturer: 'Dell'
>> >>            |          model: 'MBIM [413C:81A3]'
>> >>            |       revision: 'SWI9X15C_05.05.47.00'
>> >>            |      supported: 'gsm-umts'
>> >>            |        current: 'gsm-umts'
>> >>            |   equipment id: '355605050324851'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   System   |         device:
>> >'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-7'
>> >>            |        drivers: 'cdc_mbim'
>> >>            |         plugin: 'Dell'
>> >>            |   primary port: 'cdc-wdm1'
>> >>            |          ports: 'wwp0s20u7c2i12 (net), cdc-wdm1
>(mbim)'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Numbers  |           own : '48666459757'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Status   |           lock: 'none'
>> >>            | unlock retries: 'sim-pin2 (3)'
>> >>            |          state: 'disabled'
>> >>            |    power state: 'low'
>> >>            |    access tech: 'unknown'
>> >>            | signal quality: '0' (cached)
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Modes    |      supported: 'allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: none'
>> >>            |        current: 'allowed: 2g, 3g; preferred: none'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Bands    |      supported: 'unknown'
>> >>            |        current: 'unknown'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   IP       |      supported: 'ipv4, ipv6, ipv4v6'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   3GPP     |           imei: '355605050324851'
>> >>            |  enabled locks: 'fixed-dialing'
>> >>            |    operator id: 'unknown'
>> >>            |  operator name: 'unknown'
>> >>            |   subscription: 'unknown'
>> >>            |   registration: 'unknown'
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   SIM      |           path:
>'/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/SIM/0'
>> >>
>> >>   -------------------------
>> >>   Bearers  |          paths: 'none'
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  mmcli -m 0 --enable
>> >> error: couldn't enable the modem:
>> >> 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.libmbim.Error.Status.Failure:
>Failure'
>> >>
>> >> I found this
>> >>
>> >
>>
>https://sigquit.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/dell-branded-sierra-wireless-3g4g-modem-not-online/
>> >> They said that it should be set to Mode: online. I can't do
>anything
>> >with it
>> >> while modemmanager deamon is started. When I manualy stop it I
>get:
>> >>
>> >> sudo qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm1 --dms-get-operating-mode
>> >> [10 Jul 2015, 11:27:27] -Warning ** [/dev/cdc-wdm1] QMI framing
>error
>> >> detected
>> >> error: couldn't create client for the 'dms' service: CID
>allocation
>> >failed
>> >> in the CTL client: Transaction timed out
>> >
>> >Your modem is using MBIM, not QMI, so you won't be able to use
>qmicli.
>> >I don't know yet how to do the FCC auth thing in MBIM; maybe it's
>> >possible through QMI embedded in MBIM but didn't really test that
>yet.
>> >You could try to use usb_modeswitch to select USB configuration #1
>in
>> >the device, which should be QMI.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Aleksander
>> >https://aleksander.es
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>>
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