Re: Pantech UML290 3G

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Hi,

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:03:02PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 12:04 -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:59:12AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:24:45AM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm connecting via 3G with the Pantech UML290 using cdc-acm.  I've found that I
> > > > have to use this unsupported 3rd party Windows utility to configure the device
> > > > for 3G (there is no 4G coverage in my area):
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/3492/64
> > > > 
> > > > With the standard configuration, PPP and IP come up but no traffic will flow
> > > > over the link.
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have any idea what that utility might be doing that makes 3G work?
> > > > I need to be able to use the device without having to plug it into a Windows
> > > > machine first for configuration.
> > > 
> > > Can you run this utility in a windows virtual machine and snoop on the
> > > traffic using usbmon so that we can see what is happening here?
> > 
> > I haven't done that before, but I can give it a shot.  I might not get to it for
> > a few days.
> > 
> > I was hoping the options presented by the utility might look familiar to someone
> > that knows the technology better than I do.
> 
> I snooped this a bit ago and I've added support for it to libqcdm from
> ModemManager:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager/commit/?id=7a2031613aa2405c9414ff1f3a4d3d18362d4a52
> 
> It's a qualcomm NV item that you write to the modem.  There's no
> specific tool for it yet, but libqcdm has all the bits necessary to read
> and write that specific value.  The test cases in the libqcdm/tests
> directory have code to read it and writing it isn't much different.

Wow, thanks for this.

-Forest
-- 
Forest Bond
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