Problem with AirCard 340U on embedded Linux

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:01 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.

I don't think anyone is saying that the raw-ip+dhclient pair was ever
successfully used in any of the tests Evade did :)

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Aleksander
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