Difficulty enabling modems

[Marc Murphy]

Hi Alex/Vincent,

Found the issue it’s a hardware problem.  If I stick the modem in a USB->mPCIe adapter it all works fine and the modem can be enabled.
If I stick the modem on our board in the mPCIe socket there is a sim error.. the numpty hardware engineer has crossed over the I/O, CLK and RST connections to the SIM (Aggghhhh) does explain why I can't see a SIM with the modem.

I was wondering about the GPS feature that can be used in modems, you don’t actually have to have a SIM installed to be able to use the GPS, but you have to have a SIM available to enable the modem to then subsequently use GPS.

Do you think it is worthwhile being able to enable the GPS without enabling the modem ?

Just a thought.

Cheers
Marc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Bernat [mailto:bernat at luffy.cx] 
Sent: 25 November 2014 23:15
To: Marc Murphy
Cc: modemmanager-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Difficulty enabling modems

 ❦ 25 novembre 2014 23:09 GMT, Marc Murphy <marcmltd at marcm.co.uk> :

> Thanks Alex, I will have to check the sim connection to the modem as 
> there is definitely a sim in there and it's enabled if I stick it in 
> the phone.

I have often this problem with my modem and this is solved by unloading/reloading the appropriate module. I have yet to investigate more about this but maybe you can get it working this way too.
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 /* Nobody will ever see this message :-) */ panic("Cannot initialize video hardware\n");
	2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/atari/atafb.c