E1750 Reloaded - QMI - STATIC - DHCP - IPv4

[poma]

On 15.08.2014 22:53, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 08:24 +0200, poma wrote:
>> On 14.08.2014 18:22, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 14:39 +0200, poma wrote:
>>>> On 13.08.2014 20:21, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:41 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes... :) As I said, if this issue is something that will happen to
>>>>>>> all Huawei QMI devices, we should just reflect that in the code,
>>>>>>> instead of trying something and falling back to some other method if
>>>>>>> it fails.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have a preliminary patch don't hesitate to send it for testing purposes. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you try the branch "aleksander/huawei-qmi-always-dhcp" in the
>>>>> upstream MM git repo?
>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager/log/?h=aleksander/huawei-qmi-always-dhcp
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yea, it works! :)
>>>> http://goo.gl/GQwZzX
>>>
>>> I tested today with my E397 and E392 and an Olivetti 200 (not Huawei).
>>> All three had no problem with static configuration and that
>>> configuration looked similar to poma's results.  However, that doesn't
>>> static works everywhere, and there are other reports of static not
>>> working with Sierra Qualcomm-based 73xx devices too.
>>>
>>> I have just ordered an E1750C but I'm not sure when that'll get here.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>> And how about to be more plastic reggae fantastic regarding to MMBearerIpMethod, 
>> e.g. 
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-mmbeareripmethod-static.rules
>> ATTRS{idVendor}=="<VID>", ATTRS{idProduct}=="<PID>", ENV{MM_BEARER_QMI_FORCE_DHCP}="0"
>> so if necessary, it can be switched to STATIC.
> 
> The problem here is that Huawei, ZTE, Sierra, and other vendors use the
> same VID/PID for wildly different devices and firmware versions.  So you
> simply cannot match on the VID/PID for firmware-specific behavior :(
> 
> Dan
> 

OK man, will an aleksander/huawei-qmi-always-dhcp branch be merged and when the MM 1.4 is scheduled for release?


poma