Not getting IP Address after wds-start-network

[Markus Gothe]

As long as one have the unique PIDs (Currently applies to Netgear 770S and Negear 341U) listed. It will get things working out of the box.

//M
Den 8 aug 2015 11:23 fm skrev Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>:
>
> Are these switching problems related to the auto connect feature, or are they present even if you turn off auto connect? 
>
> As for raw ip in the driver: what's the current consensus? Is this feature required? Will it help, or confuse even more? 
>
>
> Bjørn 
>
> On August 7, 2015 6:03:59 PM CEST, Markus Gothe <nietzsche at lysator.liu.se> wrote: 
> >You could as well use my derivate driver for raw IP only as well... 
> > 
> >However switch the WDA format is to prefer, but recent Netgear stuff 
> >with Sprint branding have issues with the switch. Namely 341U and 770S. 
> > 
> >//M 
> >Den 7 aug 2015 1:12 fm skrev Kavula Suresh <kavulas at gmail.com>: 
> >> 
> >> Thanks! With patch script update, it's working fine as expected.  
> >> 
> >> Thanks once again.  
> >> 
> >> Regards, 
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Aleksander Morgado 
> ><aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> Hey, 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Kavula Suresh <kavulas at gmail.com> 
> >wrote: 
> >>> > I have a problem with the Sierra MC7354 Modem and libqmi drivers. 
> >I can 
> >>> > establish connection with qmicli commands. After connecting 
> >network, I don’t 
> >>> > get ip from service provider (with dhclient wwan0) and disconnects 
> >network 
> >>> > after 1 or 2 minutes. Here is the command summary used: 
> >>> > 
> >>> > # qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --wds-start-network=VZWINTERNET 
> >>> > --client-no-release-cid --wds-follow-network 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Network started 
> >>> >         Packet data handle: '1137907944' 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Ctrl+C will stop the network 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'connected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Connection status: 'disconnected' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Stopping after detecting disconnection 
> >>> > Network cancelled... releasing resources 
> >>> > error: couldn't stop network: QMI protocol error (26): 'NoEffect' 
> >>> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Client ID not released: 
> >>> >         Service: 'wds' 
> >>> >             CID: '9' 
> >>> > 
> >>> > 
> >>> > 
> >>> > After issuing command: 
> >>> > 
> >>> > ifconfig -a 
> >>> > 
> >>> > wwan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3A:65:0F:F1:01:E3 
> >>> >           inet6 addr: fe80::3865:fff:fef1:1e3/64 Scope:Link 
> >>> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
> >>> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
> >>> >           TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
> >>> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
> >>> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:32124 (31.3 KiB) 
> >>> > 
> >>> > and 
> >>> > 
> >>> >     # dhclient -d -4 wwan0 
> >>> > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1-ESV-R8 
> >>> > Copyright 2004-2013 Internet Systems Consortium. 
> >>> > All rights reserved. 
> >>> > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Listening on LPF/wwan0/3a:65:0f:f1:01:e3 
> >>> > Sending on   LPF/wwan0/3a:65:0f:f1:01:e3 
> >>> > Sending on   Socket/fallback 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 
> >>> > DHCPDISCOVER on wwan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 
> >>> > No DHCPOFFERS received. 
> >>> > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Any suggestions would be help to make wwan0 broadband connection 
> >in forever 
> >>> > mode. 
> >>> > 
> >>> 
> >>> Assuming you're not using libqmi git master, go apply this patch 
> >here 
> >>> and retry ,please: 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libqmi/commit/?id=4a82bb9be84861e5098d1c1482b16f60b2b3e449 
> >>> 
> >>> The MC7354 shows up with 2 pairs of QMI+WWAN pairs; one of them is 
> >by 
> >>> default set to raw-ip; the other one is set to 802.3.The kernel 
> >driver 
> >>> expects it to be 802.3, so you'll need to either choose the QMI+WWAN 
> >>> pair which is already in 802.3, or otherwise, unconditionally switch 
> >>> to 802.3 before connecting (with that patch). 
> >>> 
> >>> Without more info that's what I would suggest to do for now. 
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> Aleksander 
> >>> https://aleksander.es 
> >> 
> >> 
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