Hello, experience shows that end users often report kernel related bugs to their distro, and not all distros are as good as Debian wrt forwarding these. So I did a quick Google search for qmi_wwan related bugs to see if I had missed something important.
These popped up in Fedora 17, in addition to a few duplicates of the already fixed Gobi probe bummer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834871 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835153 I believe they are both the same problem: NM/MM is somehow so confused by the new wwan0 interface that it fails to connect. I see the latter bug is assigned to Dan, so I trust it is in good hands. But this problem is probably not Fedora specific and I think it needs a generic solution. And I'd really prefer this solved somehow without blacklisting the driver, which currently seems like the simplest workaround. You'll never get a blacklist removed once configured, so these interfaces won't be there anymore when NM/MM starts supporting them. And even worse: The blacklist will then prevent the driver from supporting newer/other modems. AFAICS, there is no possible way for the driver to avoid this problem, short of disabling itself. Which doesn't make much sense... Therefore I am hoping to get some advice here. Is there some way to make the NM/MM versions in Fedora 17 (and presumably many other distributions) silently ignore the new and yet unsupported wwanX modem interfaces? It should just continue using the serial interfaces until it has support for QMI/wwan. Why doesn't it? IMHO, this should warrant a "NM/MM stable" update if necessary. I realize that userspace applications like NM/MM are somewhat special in their need to tie to specific drivers, but a bug preventing driver improvements is really bad... I expect a storm of these problems once all major distributions upgrade their kernels to 3.4+, unless we can get this fixed ASAP in the current stable NM/MM and pushed that fix to the distros in the same timeframe. Bjørn _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
