Basic (Idiotic) questions about ModemManager / mmcli / libqmi / modems / life

[Ajay Garg]

Thanks Thomas.


Question 2 :
=========

Let's take a modem working in QMI-mode.

With the "qcserial" and "qmi_wwan" drivers installed, and NO OTHER
VENDOR-SPECIFIC drivers (sierra/zte/huawei/any-other) required or
installed, the modem (after it is inserted in the USB-slot), will have
the following two created ::

        * /dev/cdc-... device-identifier
        * a wwan network-interface (visible via "ifconfig" command)

Above two will be created, irrespective of whether or not
ModemManager/mmcli is compiled/running with
QMI_DEVICE_OPEN_FLAGS_PROXY set or not.

Is my understanding correct?


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay


On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:35 PM,  <tschaefer at t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 13.08.2016 16:56 schrieb Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi All.
>>
>>
>> Question 1 :
>> ==========
>>
>> Can mmcli work as a standalone?
>>
>
> No.
>
>> Or mmcli is a front-end app, communicating (exclusively) with
>> ModemManager in the backend (where ModemManager is the real thing that
>> communicates with modems)?
>>
>
> Yes. (But not exclusively, e.g. networkmanager can also control the
> modemmanager)
>
> Thomas



-- 
Regards,
Ajay