Problem with AirCard 340U on embedded Linux

[Bjørn Mork]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>>> If you're going to stick to forcing 802-3 LLP in your device using the
>>> --wda-set-data-format, I think you can ignore all those patches.
>>>
>>> The "--get-expected-data-format" command will only work if your kernel
>>> has raw-ip support (32f7adf, which you had cherry-picked already).
>>> Which takes me to the next question, which is, why did qmi-network not
>>> work for you before you cherry-picked those patches? If qmi-network
>>> detects an error in "--get-expected-data-format", it should default to
>>> the old behavior of defaulting to 802-3 with WDA...
>>
>> I really don't think "--get-expected-data-format" can come into the
>> picture here?  The ISC dhclient won't handle that.  So the reason it
>> worked for the desktop must have been the fallback to
>> --wda-set-data-format.
>
> Sure, that is likely what happened in the desktop, which didn't have
> the raw-ip support patches I assume; but why didn't the same thing
> work in the embedded platform running Linux 4.1? i.e. why didn't it
> fallback to --wda-set-data-format=802-3 when
> "--get-expected-data-format" failed?

Don't know.  I just don't think either can have operated in raw-ip mode,
unless the dhclient was heavily patched.


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