> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 1/2] wwan: Add support for CDC (Huawei > 'HiLink') Modems > To: malaa...@elisanet.fi; openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > CC: blo...@openwrt.org > From: b...@einfach.org > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:26:33 +0000 > > On 02/23/2016 07:11 AM, Matti Laakso wrote: > >> Huawei HiLink ("h" model names) modems just provide a CDC Ethernet > >> interface > >> where we have to run DHCP to get an IP address (usually in the > >> 192.168.8.0 > >> range). While this may be bad design in general it's sometimes > >> necessary to > >> support these modems. > >> > >> This adds autodetection and handling of these to wwan. > >> > >> Tested with Huawei E3030h-1. > > > > Why do you need an extra protocol for these? They work just fine with > > the regular DHCP protocol. > > Hi, sorry I saw this so late... (cc: please). > > The reason is that I want different types of Modems to work with the > same interface configuration, using 'wwan'. E.g. it's configured like > this (/etc/config/network): > > config interface 'umts' > option proto wwan > option apn internet.eplus.de > option metric 4 > > And it will work with PPP, QMI, MBIM, HiLink or whatever modem supported > by "wwan" (which are hopefully more and more)... Doesn't that make > sense? It would help the user who doesn't want to guess wether QMI works > better than PPP for a specific modem and which serial port to use, etc... >
That's a good goal, but I think it's confusing for the user when apn and pin options don't work with HiLink modems but do work with all other modems handled by wwan. Matti
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