Sounds good, as always let me know if there's anything I can test or
provide to help out

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 13:23 -0500, dag dg wrote:
>> Appears to be working now. When I initially did this it was showing
>> the card as available. Then when I clicked on it to connect, it
>> connected in the background, but if you were to check nm-applet it
>> shows under "Mobile Broadband" 2 entries of "not enabled". While in
>> this state if you check ifconfig you'll see wwan0 with an IP and if
>> you test it you will see that you are connected.  For the "not
>> enabled" entries, the first one is greyed out(where the signal
>> strength indicator normally goes, like AT&T LTE then shows the bars)
>> and then the second one is clickable. If you click on it it pops up
>> with an error message basically stating that "this interface is not
>> managed by Network Manager". After restarting Network Manager though
>> this issue seemed to go away(it shows the AT&T connection even after
>> connecting along with the strength and will let you disconnect), and
>> after a reboot it was working fine as well; I'll keep an eye out and
>> see if the behavior comes back. Outside of that everything appears to
>> be working.
>>
>> On the Fedora side I'm not sure what the roadmap is for getting this
>> pulled; libqmi isn't even available as an RPM yet. However on my end
>> I'm a happy camper; it's working fine in nm-applet now I just have to
>> get a startup script to load the right modules and assign the right
>> device addresses.
>
> libqmi is proposed for review but there always needs to be somebody that
> does the review, and that only seems to be possible via horse-trading.
> That said, we could just pull in MM with a private copy of libqmi and
> libmbim until the official packages get approved :)
>
> Dan
>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Aleksander Morgado
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On 08/05/13 10:29, dag dg wrote:
>> >> Yes, per Dan's advice I compiled MM > NM > nm-applet. Is there a flag
>> >> I can pass to autogen to force it to compile modemmanager-1? Also
>> >> despite these checks into Network Manager, would they really cause
>> >> Modem Manager to behave this way? I can understand the device not
>> >> showing up in network manager, but for modem manager to change the
>> >> device status to "disabled" is odd. Can those "InvalidQmiCommand" and
>> >> "Firmware not supported" warnings be safely ignored? Also if you check
>> >> the modem-manager debug output you'll see an entry of:
>> >>
>> >> modem-manager[18566]: <warn>  [1368000178.829043]
>> >> [mm-iface-modem-3gpp.c:1948] load_imei_ready(): couldn't load IMEI:
>> >> 'Device doesn't report a valid IMEI'
>> >>
>> >> I've checked with dell and verified that this is a proper IMEI but
>> >> then again they could be wrong...
>> >
>> > There is no issue in any of those logs. The modem goes *always* to
>> > 'disabled' state when initially detected; you would then enable it with
>> > network-manager-applet.
>> >
>> > You can try to pass --with-modem-manager-1=yes to the NM's autogen.sh.
>> > That will fail configure if libmm-glib is not found. Make sure you have
>> > mm-glib.pc in the default pkg-config path...
>> >
>> > If this is a 64 bit system, you may want to pass --libdir=/usr/lib64 to
>> > every autogen.sh; including the MM one.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Aleksander
>
>
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