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[Henrik Olsson <henrik@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Yes, i got it to work actually.

I assembled all the patches needed (also made GobiAPI compile for
64bit) for the modules in a repository, with a utility i wrote in ugly
hackish c++ to enable data connection (can change the APN in config.h)

https://bitbucket.org/henrik/vaio/src/47789efa20c6/gobi

Might be useful for someone else..

Regards,
Henrik

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 15:55, vick <weasalandme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The only way to make it work with NetworkManager at the moment is to use
> qcserial driver instead of GobiSerial. Before you can do that, you need to
> modify the qcserial source to include the hardware IDs of the gobi device so
> the driver would detect the device and provide the serial interfaces. You
> can find details on one way to do that here:
> http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0045_howto_setup_sony_vaio_x_wwan_gobi_2000_under_ubuntu_linux.html
> (just the qcserial part).
>
> Once you have that running you need to make sure you have modemmanager 0.5
> (I have 0.5-1 on Debian) or later installed because there is a fix in there
> that would allow NetworkManager to correctly detect the Huawei Gobi 3000
> device our laptops have.
>
> After all that Network Manager should detect and show the ttyUSB device for
> your modem and you can easily connect.
>
> For all of the above you do not need GobiNet.
> When using GobiNet you don't need qcserial or GobiSerial but it's very
> tricky at the moment to setup the connection - you need to use the GobiAPI.
> So you need to compile the GobiAPI part of which is the
> GobiConnectionMgmt.so library. This might actually need few changes since
> the API is very badly written and it has hardcoded hardware IDs in it. Take
> a look at the CodeAurora Forum for some details, there are few threads that
> have the necessary changes -
> https://www.codeaurora.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=15.
> After you have the API compiled you can write your own c++ app to use it or
> be lazy like me and use python.
> Here is an example script that would look for available devices and give you
> the MEID you need in the QCWWANConnect method in order to connect to the
> device. You must also put in the correct APN, user and passwrod in the
> SetDefaultProfile method  - the ones in the script work for me for AT&T in
> the US. Also make sure you run the script from the same directory where you
> have the GobiConnectionMgmt.so file or you'll have to point to it in your
> script. If the below script executes correctly your wwan card will connect
> to the network every time you turn it on and the usb0 device will come
> online and network manager will handle the rest just like any wired
> connection.
>
> from ctypes import *
> import time
> gobi = CDLL("./GobiConnectionMgmt.so")
>
> class device(Structure):
>    _fields_ = [("id", c_char * 256),("key", c_char * 16)]
>
> size = c_byte(1)
> list = (device * 1)()
>
> exit = gobi.QCWWANEnumerateDevices(byref(size), byref(list))
> print 'Enumerate exit code:' + str(exit)
> print 'device: ' + list[0].id + ' MEID: ' + list[0].key
>
> a = create_string_buffer("qcqmi0")
> b = create_string_buffer("<your MEID here>")
>
> exit = gobi.QCWWANConnect(byref(a), byref(b))
> print 'Connect exit code: ' + str(exit)
>
>
> pAPNName = create_string_buffer('broadband')
> username = create_string_buffer('')
> password = create_string_buffer('')
> profileType = c_ulong(0)
> exit = gobi.SetDefaultProfile(profileType, None, None, None, None, None,
> None, pAPNName, username, password)
> print 'SetDefaultProfile exit code:' + str(exit)
>
> autoConnect = c_ulong(1)
> roamSetting = c_ulong(1)
> exit = gobi.SetEnhancedAutoconnect(autoConnect, byref(roamSetting))
> print 'SetEnhancedAutoconnect exit code:' + str(exit)
>
> exit = gobi.QCWWANDisconnect()
> print 'Disconnect exit code:' + str(exit)
>
>
> ________________________________
> Could you expand upon how you got it to work with NetworkManager? Mine
> just finds it as an ethernet device with "cable unplugged" as status.
>
>
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