Setting IP-addresses without NetworkManager?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 18:13 +0300, Ossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run a very minimal Gentoo installation on the latest X1 Carbon with
> EM7455 modem. I do all the networking related config with netifrc
> scripts. I can initialize the modem using ModemManager, running
> 'mmcli
> -m 0 --simple-connect="apn=internet"' and grabbing the IP-information
> from 'mmcli -b 0'. This is a lot of manual work, so I've scripted it.
> I'm just wondering if it's possible to set address, gateway and
> nameservers automatically without NetworkManager? Running dhcpcd on
> the
> modem interface does not do anything.

MBIM devices generally do not support DHCP on the net port, you have to
get the IP configuration through MBIM.

Yes, you can take that information and apply it to the net port
manually, and write the DNS info to /etc/resolv.conf manually too. 
This should work; you don't need NM to do that.

But it looks like the modem is not powered up, or is in airplane mode. 
Try:

mbimcli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --set-radio-state=on

before running mbim-network and see if that fixes things.  If it
doesn't, and you still get the RadioPowerOff, your platform may have
hardware rfkill/airplane mode functionality that you need to figure out
how to turn off first.

Dan

> 
> I also noticed that 'mbim-network /dev/cdc-wdm0 start' does not work
> at
> all. Could you give a hint of what's wrong with my setup:
> 
> Loading profile at /etc/mbim-network.conf...
>     APN: internet
>     APN auth protocol: unset
>     APN user: unset
>     APN password: unset
>     mbim-proxy: no
> Querying subscriber ready status 'mbimcli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0
> --query-subscriber-ready-status --no-close '...
> [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Subscriber ready status retrieved: Ready state:
> 'initialized' Subscriber ID: '244052162157311' SIM ICCID:
> '89358021150507165706' Ready info: 'unknown' Telephone numbers: (0)
> 'unknown' [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Session not closed: TRID: '3'
> Saving state at /tmp/mbim-network-state-cdc-wdm0... (TRID: 3)
> Querying registration state 'mbimcli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0
> --query-registration-state --no-open=3 --no-close '...
> [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Registration status: Network error: 'unknown'
> Register
> state: 'deregistered' Register mode: 'automatic' Available data
> classes:
> 'unknown' Current cellular class: 'gsm' Provider ID: 'unknown'
> Provider
> name: 'unknown' Roaming text: 'unknown' Registration flags:
> 'packet-service-automatic-attach' [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Session not closed:
> TRID: '4'
> Saving state at /tmp/mbim-network-state-cdc-wdm0... (TRID: 4)
> Attaching to packet service with 'mbimcli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0
> --attach-packet-service --no-open=4 --no-close '...
> error: operation failed: RadioPowerOff
> Saving state at /tmp/mbim-network-state-cdc-wdm0... (TRID: 5)
> Starting network with 'mbimcli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --
> connect=apn='internet'
> --no-open=5 --no-close '...
> error: operation failed: RadioPowerOff
> Network start failed
> [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Session not closed: TRID: '6'
> Saving state at /tmp/mbim-network-state-cdc-wdm0... (TRID: 6)
> 
> 
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