QMICLI tools examples and documentation for begginers

[Tom Isaacson]

Most helpful guide I found was this blog post:
https://techship.com/faq/how-to-step-by-step-set-up-a-data-connection-over-qmi-interface-using-qmicli-and-in-kernel-driver-qmi-wwan-in-linux/

Tom Isaacson

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:31 PM Aleksander Morgado
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>> I am currently working with Simcom SIM7500E module and I am using qmicli to set the network for the modem. Could you please recommend me a good guide for beginners who work with qmicli commands? I have read the qmicli man page and I have seen some examples from forums on how to use the commands, but I haven’t found that detailed enough.
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> I agree there is not much documentation or many examples on how to use qmicli; who has time for that? :P
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> A good example on how to use qmicli, e.g. with the options to allocate CIDs once and reuse them over and over, is the qmi-network program itself: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libqmi/-/blob/master/utils/qmi-network.in
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> Other than that, I'm not sure there are other public examples that make use of qmicli.
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> If anyone would like to work on documenting qmicli or adding some step-by-step examples on how to use it, please do so by collaborating in the modemmanager.org doc website contents: https://modemmanager.org/docs/libqmi/ Anyone can send merge requests for that website here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/mobile-broadband.pages.freedesktop.org
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> Aleksander
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