Netgear Aircard 341U in QMI mode, switching to 802.3

[Markus Gothe]

I got one of these coming to me so what did we conclude about the firmware behaviour? Timing issue or something other?

Did Netgear released a newer fw with fixes???

//M

Den 11 jun 2015 19:28 skrev Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es>:
>
> 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. 
>
> -- 
> Aleksander 
> https://aleksander.es