[ltp] Re: Sierra Wireless EM7345 4G LTE

[Bjørn Mork]

Luca Fornasari <luca.fornasari@gmail.com> writes:
> On 08.10.2014 10:41, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
>
> [..]
>> It works! `mmcli -m 0 --simple-connect=pin=1234,apn=yourapn` ends =
up in
>> a successful connection :-)
>
> Hi, I'm trying to use the Sierra Wireless EM7345 4G LTE ...
> Can you or Bjørn sum up what kernel version and libmbim should be us=
ed?
>
> I understand the module cdc_ncm has to be loaded with "prefer_mbim=Y"
> but I'm a bit lost understanding what kernel and library should be
> used.

I believe any released version should work.  But I haven't actually
tested any of the older driver or libmbim versions, so I could be
wrong... There have been a number of fixes and features added over time,
before anyone ever tested an EM7345.

If you want a tested reference, then the current Debian "jessie"
versions are good. I am using an EM7345 successfully with these
packages:

bjorn@nemi:~$ apt-cache policy modemmanager
modemmanager:
  Installed: 1.4.0-1
  Candidate: 1.4.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.0-1 0
        600 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.5.2.0-2 0
        700 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
bjorn@nemi:~$ apt-cache policy libmbim-glib4
libmbim-glib4:
  Installed: 1.10.0-2
  Candidate: 1.10.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.10.0-2 0
        600 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bjorn@nemi:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-3.16-2-amd64
linux-image-3.16-2-amd64:
  Installed: 3.16.3-2
  Candidate: 3.16.3-2
  Version table:
 *** 3.16.3-2 0
        600 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status



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