Huawei me906s-158

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Andreas Fett <andreas.fett at secunet.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/16 16:24, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>> I'm assuming ModemManager runs as root; is there any other program
>> making use of the proxy here? mbimcli maybe? In order to avoid these
>> kind of issues, the quickest solution is to always run everything as
>> root, or under sudo for what it's worth. Maybe mbimcli with a normal
>> user starts the proxy and MM with uid 0 tries to access it and uids
>> don't match?
>>
>> Another option is to manually run the proxy before MM is started; e.g.:
>>
>> [terminal 1] $ sudo /usr/libexec/mbim-proxy --verbose
>> [terminal 2] $ sudo /usr/sbin/ModemManager --debug
>
> I did that (see attached logs). Everything is run as root. The outcome
> however is quite the same.
>
> I also attached a try with mbimcli after a fresh boot with neither
> mbim proxy nor ModemManger running.
>
> To me the mbimcli output an the mbim-proxy log look quite similar.
>
> Any hints what else I could try?

Oh, please note that if you're running the proxy, either manually or
launched automatically by MM, then all your "mbimcli" commands need to
be run with the extra "-p" option.

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Aleksander
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