Commands to read IMSI/ICCID etc

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2019-01-21 at 12:45 +0000, Paul Gildea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I notice that newer modems don't seem to support the older dms
> commands
> such as:

Correct; newer modems inconsistently support DMS, but they should all
support UIM. For the SIM file specific ones (read-transparent) a lot of
that also depends on the SIM card itself.

Dan

> qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --dms-uim-get-imsi
> error: couldn’t get IMSI: QMI protocol error (94): ‘NotSupported’
> 
> qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --dms-uim-get-pin-status
> error: couldn’t get PIN status: QMI protocol error (94):
> ‘NotSupported’
> 
> qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --dms-uim-get-state
> error: couldn’t get UIM state: QMI protocol error (94):
> ‘NotSupported’
> 
> qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --dms-uim-get-iccid
> error: couldn’t get ICCID: QMI protocol error (94): ‘NotSupported’
> 
> 
> The MC7430 seems to support three of the above and not the other (pin
> status). It gets a bit messy, is there a command that works on all of
> them?
> I had hopes for reading the memory with the uim commands for ICCID
> and
> IMSI, and that seemed to work on all the modem types I tried, for
> instance:
> 
> qmicli -p -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --uim-read-
> transparent=0x3F00,0x7FFF,0x6F07
> [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Successfully read information from the UIM:
> Card result:
> SW1: '0x90'
> SW2: '0x00'
> Read result:
> 08:29:83:02:78:00:21:28:87
> 
> Resulting in IMSI (15 digit long):
> 2 38 20 87 00 12 82 78
> 
> A couple of questions, should this command work on all of the Sierra
> MC/EM
> modems?
> The second is, why would it work on one modem and not another of the
> same
> type/firmware? I spotted this error on an MC7455 that I have, yet it
> works
> fine on another with the same version of firmware
> (SWI9X30C_02.26.01.00
> r7120 CARMD-EV-FRMWR2 2017/09/15 18:38:46):
> 
> 
> qmicli -p -d /dev/cdc-wdm4 --uim-read-transparent=0x3F00,0x7FFF,
> [21 Jan 2019, 12:40:00] -Warning ** [/dev/cdc-wdm4] requested auto
> mode but
> no MBIM QMUX support available
> error: couldn't read transparent file from the UIM: QMI protocol
> error (3):
> 'Internal'
> 
> qmicli -p -d /dev/cdc-wdm4 --uim-read-transparent=0x3F00,0x7FFF
> [21 Jan 2019, 12:40:49] -Warning ** [/dev/cdc-wdm4] requested auto
> mode but
> no MBIM QMUX support available
> error: couldn't read transparent file from the UIM: QMI protocol
> error (3):
> 'Internal'
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Paul
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