On lun., mars 29 2021, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
Hey
Thanks for your answeer.
I have a "e3372h-153" Huawei 4G USB dongle.
This dongle works with the "huawei_cdc_ncm" kernel driver.
Once connected, two devices appear : /dev/ttyUSB0 and
/dev/cdc-wdm1.
These ones are used to talk to the modem itself.
There is also a network interface appearing, which is (I
believe)
related to the driver "huawei_cdc_ncm" and the NCM protocol :
wwx001e101f0000: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1e:10:1f:00:00 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
I am able to connect the modem with "mmcli ...", yet still I
have
to configure
the corresponding network interface in order to access the
web.
When using only ModemManager/mmcli this is expected, yes. You
need to
look for the connected bearer details (e.g. mmcli -b 0 probably)
and
then apply the IP addressing changes showed there.
I cannot find any bearer.
But this
interface does not show up with "nmcli device show". I am
however
able to
issue "dhclient wwx001e101f0000" and it works.
NetworkManager does not refer to the modem based on the network
interface it exposes, it refers to the modem based on the
primary
control port exposed by the modem (e.g. cdc-wdm0 probably).
Ok, I understand, "nmcli -m 0" gives :
System | device:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.3
| drivers: huawei_cdc_ncm, option1
| plugin: huawei
| primary port: ttyUSB0
| ports: cdc-wdm1 (at), ttyUSB0 (at),
wwx001e101f0000 (net)
so, there are two control ports and one data port. NetworkManager
defaults to the primary port :
ttyUSB0: déconnecté
"Intel Sunrise Point-LP 3.0 xHCI"
gsm (huawei_cdc_ncm, option1), hw
I also tried "nm-connection-editor". This one finds the modem
(gsm) but it seems to
settle a connection through ppp.I would prefer a connection
through wwx001e101f0000
because it uses the NCM protocol, known to be faster than PPP.
This is the way to go. If ModemManager doesn't use the cdc-wdm
port
plus the network interface for the connection, there must be a
reason
for that, we need to find why.
Do the cdc-wdm and the net port show up in the list of ports
reported
in "mmcli -m 0"?
yes, but I tried again, nm-connection-editor lets me choose
"Mobile Connection",
but I see settings for PPP.
Then, how come that I cannot see and configure wwx001e101f0000
with nmcli, just like
any other network (wired, wifi) interface ?
Because that interface is a modem network interface, and so the
main
interface that NetworkManager would refer to is the control
port, not
the data port (as the data port is chosen dynamically on
runtime).
Ok, I understand.
Maybe this is because NetworkManager sees ttyUSB0 first and then
thinks
it is a PPP connection. How could I make NetworkManager consider
only
cdc-wdm1 (in my case) ?
Regards
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