Neoway n720 (mPCIe version) - uqmi hangs

[Aleksander Morgado]

On 13/11/17 09:26, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> Do you use netifd's proto handler + uqmi, or just run uqmi with shell commands ?
> 
> The proto handler for uqmi:
> https://github.com/lede-project/source/blob/master/package/network/utils/uqmi/files/lib/netifd/proto/qmi.sh
> 
> If using the uqmi proto-handler:
> 1) the uqmi proto handler does not do any switch to raw-IP if that's
> needed ; you may need to add that
> 1a) it always tries 802.3 data format
> 2) also, uqmi still uses an old `--get-pin-status` cmd, that's no
> longer supported on newer chips
> 3) make sure that the proto handler does not get stuck in an infinite
> loop ; there are 2 infinite loops that were fixed recently:
>    https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/a5d016f3615c10a326a507dcb24afe8adcd48396#diff-dd450de467f3c0c0f679b54abe4d23b2
> 3a) because of those infinite loops you can end up with 2 uqmi
> processes talking the modem, which seems to mess things up
> 

I don't think that any of those issues would end up trigger uqmi getting stuck not responding. That looks more like the module not replying properly, e.g. if it is still booting and cannot process QMI messages yet.

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