E1750 Reloaded - QMI - STATIC - DHCP - IPv4

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 7:37 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

No, won't merge that branch.... instead we'll default back to DHCP for
all, until we have a clearer picture. Will do that, plus a MM 1.4
release next week.


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Aleksander
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