Cannot subscribe to ModemManager-devel

[David McCullough]

Dan Williams wrote the following:
> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 22:39 +1000, David McCullough wrote:
> > Aleksander Morgado wrote the following:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:42 AM, David McCullough
> > > <david.mccullough at accelecon.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Aleksander,
> > > >
> > > > I don't seem to be able to subscribe to ModemManager-devel.
> > > >
> > > >         Bug in Mailman version 2.1.13
> > > >
> > > >         We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> > > >
> > > >         Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> > > >         traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
> > > >         but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> > > >
> > > > Not sure you can do anything but I thought I would let you know.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I don't think I can do anything, but that's really weird and
> > > unfortunate. If you want, you can send your email without subscribing
> > > and I will then let it pass the filters.
> > 
> > Ok, no problems.
> > 
> > > > If you have a minute, have you ever seen this from a Modem (in this case a
> > > > Gemalto Cinterion PXS8):
> > > >
> > > >         CME ERROR: 2     Phone adapter link reserved
> > > >
> > > > I can't seem to find a cause for this error anywhere,
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I'm going to get one of those this week. I only have a PLS8 (LTE
> > > version) that Gemalto sent me for testing, but not the PXS8. Which
> > > version of ModemManager are you using? Because IIRC, that device
> > > should be QMI-based (maybe you're missing kernel driver updating
> > > VID/PID?)
> > 
> > I have 3 hardware variants from different mini PCIe vendors,  all the
> > same Cinterion chip.  1 works fine the other 2 get this error.  Unfortuntely
> > chinese new year means there is no one around at the vendor end.
> > 
> > The working card is just using PPP for now with MM 0.7.990 and MM 1.2.
> > The other two register but then give one of these errors in the last steps
> > when connecting.
> 
> Are you testing all three with the same SIM card?

Yes,  same host system, same software,  same SIM,  different cards.

I was under the impression that "card makers" could reduce costs by not
including various modules in their firmware.  Perhaps the PPP support or
something else is just not there.

Thanks,
Davidm

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David McCullough,  david.mccullough at accelecon.com,   Ph: 0410 560 763