[PATCH] huawei: add basic support for ME909u-521

Stefan Eichenberger stefan.eichenberger at netmodule.com
Fri Sep 16 07:52:47 UTC 2016


Hi Dan,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 01:00:35PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 18:57 +0200, Stefan Eichenberger wrote:
> > The ME909u-512 does theoretically support the DHCP feature over AT
> > but if
> > this is done right after the NDISDUP command, it seems that the
> > firmware
> > has some trouble with it because the firmware will not attach the
> > Ethernet header afterwards. This can be seen by doing a tcpdump while
> > pinging e.g. 8.8.8.8. The request has a size of 98 Bytes, while the
> > replies only have a size of 84 Bytes. The first 14 Bytes are missing
> > which is exactly the size of the Ethernet header.
> > 
> > To reproduce this issue, I've tried the command sequence manually:
> > mmcli -m 0 --command 'AT^NDISDUP=1,1,"gprs.swisscom.ch"'
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CREG?"
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT^NDISSTATQRY?"
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CGREG?"
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT^DHCP?"
> > 
> > The error appears in with this sequence
> > 
> > mmcli -m 0 --command 'AT^NDISDUP=1,1,"gprs.swisscom.ch"'
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CREG?"
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT^NDISSTATQRY?"
> > mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CGREG?"
> 
> Have you tested out how long the firmware needs before it can take the
> AT^DHCP without problems?
I was doing the test this morning again. It seems that it's not really
time related. I can wait as long as I want between AT+CGREG? and
AT^DHCP? if I do it the Ethernet header will be missing. But when I do
a dhcp request over the Ethernet interface between the two steps, then I
can do the AT^DHCP? without problems.

So this was working for me:
mmcli -m 0 --command 'AT^NDISDUP=1,1,"gprs.swisscom.ch"'
mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CREG?"
mmcli -m 0 --command "AT^NDISSTATQRY?"
mmcli -m 0 --command "AT+CGREG?"
udhcpc -i usb0
mmcli -m 0 --command "AT^DHCP?"

> 
> Dan
> 
> > The error does not appear in this sequence
> > 
> > This commit applies to 1.6.0 and adds a udev option for this modem,
> > which disables the DHCP over AT command feature.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Eichenberger <stefan.eichenberger at netmodule.com
> > >
> > ---
> >  plugins/huawei/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules |  3 ++
> >  plugins/huawei/mm-broadband-bearer-huawei.c      | 50
> > ++++++++++++++++++------
> >  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/plugins/huawei/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules
> > b/plugins/huawei/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules
> > index f60f1f8..d35f2d5 100644
> > --- a/plugins/huawei/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules
> > +++ b/plugins/huawei/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules
> > @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}!="12d1",
> > GOTO="mm_huawei_port_types_end"
> >  # MU609 does not support getportmode (crashes modem with default
> > firmware)
> >  ATTRS{idProduct}=="1573", ENV{ID_MM_HUAWEI_DISABLE_GETPORTMODE}="1"
> >  
> > +# MU909u does not support DHCP properly, it can happen that the
> > Ethernet frames do not attach the Ethernet header afterwards.
> > +ATTRS{idProduct}=="1573", ENV{ID_MM_HUAWEI_DISABLE_DHCP}="1"
> > +
> >  # Mark the modem and at port flags for ModemManager
> >  SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="ff",
> > ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}=="01", ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="01",
> > ENV{ID_MM_HUAWEI_MODEM_PORT}="1"
> >  SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="ff",
> > ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}=="01", ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="02",
> > ENV{ID_MM_HUAWEI_AT_PORT}="1"
> > diff --git a/plugins/huawei/mm-broadband-bearer-huawei.c
> > b/plugins/huawei/mm-broadband-bearer-huawei.c
> > index 60a91e5..11782c3 100644
> > --- a/plugins/huawei/mm-broadband-bearer-huawei.c
> > +++ b/plugins/huawei/mm-broadband-bearer-huawei.c
> > @@ -465,17 +465,34 @@ connect_3gpp_context_step (Connect3gppContext
> > *ctx)
> >                                         g_object_ref (ctx->self));
> >          return;
> >  
> > -    case CONNECT_3GPP_CONTEXT_STEP_IP_CONFIG:
> > -        mm_base_modem_at_command_full (ctx->modem,
> > -                                       ctx->primary,
> > -                                       "^DHCP?",
> > -                                       3,
> > -                                       FALSE,
> > -                                       FALSE,
> > -                                       NULL,
> > -                                       (GAsyncReadyCallback)connect_
> > dhcp_check_ready,
> > -                                       g_object_ref (ctx->self));
> > -        return;
> > +    case CONNECT_3GPP_CONTEXT_STEP_IP_CONFIG: {
> > +        GUdevClient *client;
> > +        GUdevDevice *data_device;
> > +
> > +        // ME909u has a problem with DHCP over AT. If it's done
> > right after NDSIDUP
> > +        // the modem doesn't send the Ethernet header anymore which
> > confuses the network stack
> > +        client = g_udev_client_new (NULL);
> > +        data_device = (g_udev_client_query_by_subsystem_and_name (
> > +                           client,
> > +                           "tty",
> > +                           mm_port_get_device (&ctx->primary-
> > >parent.parent)));
> > +        if (!data_device || !g_udev_device_get_property_as_boolean
> > (data_device, "ID_MM_HUAWEI_DISABLE_DHCP")) {
> > +            mm_base_modem_at_command_full (ctx->modem,
> > +                                           ctx->primary,
> > +                                           "^DHCP?",
> > +                                           3,
> > +                                           FALSE,
> > +                                           FALSE,
> > +                                           NULL,
> > +                                           (GAsyncReadyCallback)conn
> > ect_dhcp_check_ready,
> > +                                           g_object_ref (ctx-
> > >self));
> > +            return;
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        mm_info("This device (%s) does not support DHCP over AT",
> > mm_port_get_device (ctx->data));
> > +        ctx->step ++;
> > +        /* Fall down to the next step */
> > +    }
> >  
> >      case CONNECT_3GPP_CONTEXT_STEP_LAST:
> >          /* Clear context */
> > @@ -489,6 +506,17 @@ connect_3gpp_context_step (Connect3gppContext
> > *ctx)
> >                      mm_bearer_connect_result_new (ctx->data, ctx-
> > >ipv4_config, NULL),
> >                      (GDestroyNotify)mm_bearer_connect_result_unref);
> >              }
> > +            else {
> > +                MMBearerIpConfig *ipv4_config;
> > +
> > +                ipv4_config = mm_bearer_ip_config_new ();
> > +                mm_bearer_ip_config_set_method (ipv4_config,
> > MM_BEARER_IP_METHOD_DHCP);
> > +                g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gpointer (
> > +                    ctx->result,
> > +                    mm_bearer_connect_result_new (ctx->data,
> > ipv4_config, NULL),
> > +                    (GDestroyNotify)mm_bearer_connect_result_unref);
> > +                g_object_unref (ipv4_config);
> > +            }
> >          }
> >  
> >          connect_3gpp_context_complete_and_free (ctx);


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