[RFC] Initial support for the new MC74XX modules

[Thomas Schäfer]

Am Sonntag, 24. Januar 2016, 20:35:15 schrieb Thomas Schäfer:
> Am 24.01.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Aleksander Morgado:
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> The new Sierra MC74XX modules are very very different to all previous
> >>> Sierra modules. Among other things, they always work in raw-ip mode,
> >>> and they also don't implement "DMS UIM" commands.
> >>> 
> >>> This series of patches introduces some initial support for these
> >>> modules, by trying to modify the expected link layer protocol in the
> >>> kernel to the one reported via WDA (if any), and also by implementing
> >>> the "unlock required" check using "UIM Get Card Status" instead of
> >>> "DMS UIM Get PIN status". There are multiple other operations based
> >>> on "DMS UIM" that should be updated to use "UIM" service operations,
> >>> but this one at least allows using the module when the SIM card has
> >>> PIN request disabled.
> >>> 
> >>> There's also another patch which ends up requesting Static IP
> >>> configuration on the newly connected Bearer if raw-ip is used; for
> >>> now to avoid needing a DHCP client with raw-ip support.
> >>> 
> >>> Comments welcome!
> >> 
> >> Patches look good to me.
> > 
> > I've merged the patches now in both libqmi and ModemManager; still
> > without PIN unlocking support; that should go next.
> 
> I tested it with MC7304.

Today I tested also devices which work better with raw-ip than with 802.3.


K5006-Z
MF821D
XS-Stick W100-2 LTE

But they don't switch automatically. How can I reach that?

Regards,
Thomas