Difficulty enabling modems

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Marc Murphy <marcmltd at marcm.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ha :)

> 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 ?

You're not the first one asking for it, and makes sense, yes. May be a
bit complex to do that, as the Location interface fully is only
enabled once the modem is enabled. Doable, but not a one-liner fix.


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