Hi Shijo and Aleksander,

2017-08-17 12:14 GMT+02:00 Aleksander Morgado <aleksan...@aleksander.es>:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Jose, Shijo <shijo.j...@hughes.com> wrote:
>>>> I just realized you're working with a MBIM modem. So the "No AT port
>>>> available to run command" may actually mean there is no AT port
>>>> detected in the modem. Are you able to see a TTY listed in the
>>>> "System/ports" entry when you do "mmcli -m 0"?
>>
>> No, I do not see TTY listed. Snippet of "mmcli -m 0" below -
>>
>>   Hardware |   manufacturer: 'Generic'
>>            |              model: 'MBIM [1BC7:1204]'
>>            |            revision: '17.01.571'
>>            |       supported: 'gsm-umts, lte'
>>            |             current: 'gsm-umts, lte'
>>            | equipment id: '35323806113733'
>>   -------------------------
>>   System   |         device: 
>> '/sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1'
>>            |              drivers: 'cdc_mbim'
>>            |                plugin: 'Generic'
>>            |   primary port: 'cdc-wdm0'
>>            |                  ports: 'cdc-wdm0 (mbim), wwan0 (net)'
>>
>
> So the modem doesn't expose any AT capable TTY in this mode? Is there
> any /dev/ttyUSBX exposed that we may not be probing correctly?
>
>>
>>>Also, we'd generally discourage enabling custom AT commands in most 
>>>situations.  Instead, we'd like to learn more about your use-case and see if 
>>>we can come up with a more >generic way to do >what you want to do.  It may 
>>>well be the case that what you want to do has an analogue in the other 
>>>protocols like MBIM and QMI, and thus we could expose >that functionality 
>>>generically via D-Bus >rather than doing one-off things for specific modems.
>>
>> One of the custom (vendor) AT commands is to switch the firmware (i.e. 
>> reboot using a different firmware) on the LTE modem based on the SIM card 
>> information (operator type).  Another one (#USBCFG) is to change the USB 
>> configuration mode (such as, enable MBIM) on the modem device.
>>
>
> Is there a configuration mode that has MBIM+AT? You may want to use
> that one instead of the one you currently have, which doesn't seem to
> expose any AT capable TTY.
>

1204 composition indeed has serial ports, but the PID is missing in
option kernel driver.

Regards,
Daniele

> As for the command to reboot with a different firmware; this is
> currently a control flow that ModemManager doesn't expect, so probably
> the best thing would be to chain a ModemManager stop/start sequence
> before/after the firmware update control operation (i.e. ModemManager
> not running at all while your other programs do firmware update,
> including any AT command required to do so).
>
>> I may also need some standard AT commands such as +CRSM to query certain SIM 
>> fields such as APN stored on the SIM,  +CGQREQ/ +CGEQOS for quality of 
>> service profile and +CGDCONTRDP for PDP Context Parameters.
>>
>
> Some of those we already expose in the interfaces, and some others we
> could include in the interfaces if they're useful enough.
>
>> Just a note that the product is a Telit LTE modem hard-wired to a processor 
>> via USB2.0 HS. The requirement is to select the appropriate protocol 
>> (MBIM/QMI/PPP) which will provide a control and data path for one or more 
>> PDP contexts and also monitor all modem and connection statistics and share 
>> this information with other processes or update SNMP MIBs. I am also looking 
>> at way for ModemManager to share updates with other processes.
>>
>
> ModemManager has a DBus interface that other processes can use.
> libmm-glib is a client-side C library that allows applications to
> easily integrate with that DBus interface. mmcli for example is an
> application that uses libmm-glib to talk to ModemManager via DBus.
> ModemManager "shares" all updates with other processes via DBus, e.g.
> with DBus property updates; clients can "connect" to the "update
> signals" and get notified right away when the properties change. I'm
> sure there are multiple ways you could try to integrate the flow you
> need; e.g. with a net-snmp agent monitoring ModemManager interfaces
> and publishing your custom OIDs.
>
> --
> Aleksander
> https://aleksander.es
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