On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 22:58 +0200, Thomas Schäfer wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012, 22:36:01 schrieben Sie: > > On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 21:38 +0200, Thomas Schäfer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > the new qmi-wwan-driver supports a lot of hardware. > > > > It only supports hardware based on newer Qualcomm chipsets that speak > > the proprietary QMI protocol, which is mainly for MSM72xx, 8xxx, and > > 9xxx. > > > > > This device is already supported by the 'sierra' serial driver. The IDs > > were added to the kernel on 2009-06-11 and was part of the 2.6.31 and > > later kernels. Unless your kernel is really, really old, it should > > already work. > > > It does work without problems(ppp). But the wwan-interface looks nicer/faster > :-) It is faster. But your device doesn't support it :( > > > > This indicates that the device is based on the Qualcomm MSM6290 chip, > > which does not support QMI. This generation of Sierra devices only > > speak DIAG, CnS, and AT. And obviously you've found one of the > > AT-capable ports, so that indicates the modem is already supported by > > the 'sierra' driver. > > > No, this device cannot be supported by qmi-wwan because it does not > > speak QMI. > > > That was the thing I want to know. > The second qustion was, how to get this information the easy way. Because the > year of manufacturing is a bad indicator - the quite old ZTE K3565-Z supports > the new wwan/qmi-interface, of course also working with ppp for years. Actually, the K3565-Z doesn't support QMI either :) It does have the possibility of a pseudo-ethernet port, but that's a custom implementation by ZTE's firmware team that isn't at all QMI related. Thankfully on the K3565-Z it's more or less standard and we don't have to go to the lengths to support it that we do for QMI-based devices. It appears the K3565-Z is based on the MDM6290 which is the same chipset that's in your Sierra 8790 :) Thus no QMI. (Technically QMI and pseudo-ethernet interfaces are completely unrelated, it just happens that every Qualcomm-derived device that supports QMI has the capability of a pseudo-ethernet interface even if the OEM's firmware team doesn't actually expose it.) Dan > Thanks a lot for your clarification. > > Regards, > > Thomas > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
