Equipment info without SIM installed

[Aleksander Morgado]

>> > > > > > In the case above none of the commands we have was
>> > > > > > successful
>> > > > > > determining capabilities :/ But we could improve the +CPIN?
>> > > > > > check and
>> > > > > > also assume that if it's telling us "SIM not inserted" then
>> > > > > > it means
>> > > > > > it requires a SIM and therefore it's at least GSM/UMTS.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I should see if any of my older CDMA or dual-mode Gobis
>> > > > > respond
>> > > > > to
>> > > > > that.  I suspect that some of the older CDMA Huawei devices
>> > > > > might.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Oh, let's see what happens with those, yes.
>> > > >
>> > > > > There's also RUIM (the CDMA SIM-type card that was really
>> > > > > only
>> > > > > used in
>> > > > > Russia and China) but I've never come across a device that
>> > > > > uses
>> > > > > one,
>> > > > > and MM doesn't support them anyway.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Yes, we should probably not worry much about those I guess.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Is the patch that Aleksander posted in this thread going to go in
>> > > anytime soon? It seems useful to me, and fixes a minor Chrome OS
>> > > issue.
>> >
>> > Were you able to test the patch with old CDMA modems?
>>
>> Bah.  I'll try to do that today.
>
> The Huawei EC121 reports "SIM NOT INSERTED" for CPIN?, but it also
> reports the correct +GCAP so MM handles it correctly.  IIRC every CDMA
> modem I've come across (even phones) reports a usable +GCAP, so I think
> we can rely on that to do the right thing for CDMA devices that also
> report CPIN.
>
> As long as we always keep GCAP before CPIN, of course...
>
> Anyway, patch works fine on a bunch of CDMA and GSM devices I have.
>

Nice! thanks for checking; let's merge it to git master.

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Aleksander
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