Netgear Aircard 341U in QMI mode, switching to 802.3

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:16 AM, David McCullough
<david.mccullough at accelecon.com> wrote:
>> I tend to agree with Dan on the raw-ip issue.  Snooping on the device
>> setup in the driver will allow all existing QMI userspace
>> implementations to use raw-ip without any major changes.
>>
>> But I do still hope we can avoid doing the raw-ip support at all.
>>
>>
>> (I have a nasty feeling that we compete with the firmware setup here,
>> and that the reason the 802.3 commands fail is that there is some
>> firmware application needing the modem in raw-ip mode.  We risk that new
>> firmware revisions will try even harder...)
>
> Not sure this applies here,  but our 341u implementation uses current libqmi
> and used to always pass the 802.3 flags to all calls.  This seemed to make it
> behave consistently in normal operation.  However, when the 341u is in IPPT
> mode,  it didn't matter,  it always seemed to run in raw-ip mode, so we
> just stopped using the 802.3 flags on the 341.
>
> IPPT mode can be enabled with:
>
>         at!ippassthrough=1
>
> and disabled with:
>
>         at!ippassthrough=0


I'd really like to see if you guys can use the 341U in IPPT mode with
the last patch I sent to the MM mailing list; i.e. to see if it ends
up switching it to 802.3.

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