<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Aleksander, </div>Wow, that python script sounds awesome, if you have a chance to finish it. I'm going to try to get pppd going, next. Then Verizon and DHCP or static IP I'm guessing. Thank! </div>Eric </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Aleksander Morgado <<a href="mailto:aleksander@aleksander.es" target="_blank">aleksander@aleksander.es</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey! <div><div class="h5"> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Eric Johnson <<a href="mailto:eric@minutekey.com">eric@minutekey.com</a>> wrote: > [eric@linux-vn1z ~]$ mmcli -b 0 > Bearer '/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Bearer/0' > ------------------------- > Status | connected: 'yes' > | suspended: 'no' > | interface: 'ttyUSB0' > | IP timeout: '20' > ------------------------- > Properties | apn: 'none' > | roaming: 'allowed' > | IP type: 'none' > | user: 'none' > | password: 'none' > | number: '#777' > | Rm protocol: 'unknown' > ------------------------- > IPv4 configuration | method: 'ppp' > ------------------------- > IPv6 configuration | method: 'unknown' > > [eric@linux-vn1z ~]$ mmcli -m 0 --list-bearers > > Found 1 bearers: > > /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Bearer/0 > > [eric@linux-vn1z ~]$ wvdialconf > Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. > > Scanning your serial ports for a modem. </div></div>Everything went ok until this point. So, mmcli lets you get the port in connected state; that's how far ModemManager goes. Still, there is another step that needs to be done, which is the IP setup in the data port (which would usually be done by e.g. NetworkManager). There currently are three main cases, and what you need to look at is the Bearer properties that you get when MM tells you you're connected (i.e. the "mmcli -b 0" output): Case 1) tty port If the bearer tells you to use a tty as data port and use PPP, you need to launch pppd on that tty, passing APN auth details among other things. Case 2) net port, dhcp If the bearer tells you to use a net port as data port and use DHCP, you need to bring the interface up and launch a DHCP client in that interface. Case 3) net port, static If the bearer tells you to use a net port as data port and 'static' config, it will also give you what IP address configuration (IP, netmask..) you need to configure in the net port. So you'll need to bring the interface up, and then setup those details in the interface. Interestingly, I was bored last Monday and started to write a python app (called it 'mm-online', I'm no good inventing new names) which will do exactly all that (just not using mmcli); it will use libmm-glib via GObject-introspection to call SimpleConnect() and then (this not yet done) prepare the connection following the steps I said earlier. This would allow a 'standalone' operation of ModemManager (i.e. without a higher level connection manager like NetworkManager). -- Aleksander <a href="https://aleksander.es" target="_blank">https://aleksander.es</a> </blockquote></div> </div>