Hi Mattias,
On 3/11/20 7:46 AM, mattias.mansson(a)verisure.com wrote:
We are writing a ofono driver/plugin for a new Quectel modem based on
a qualcomm chipset. This modem has a wwan interface that needs to be "connected"
after the context is activated, partially to allow the host to run dhcp. It can be done
either using QMI or with a special qualcomm command AT$QCRMCALL. We want to control it
using AT, as we have found several issues with QMI. But we are having some trouble
figuring out where this command should be called in the ofono state machine, at least in
the LTE case where the context is automatically activated. If we activate the context
manually, we could just add that call in the end of the context activation. But if we for
the automatic case add this command when we receive PDN ACT 1 and the AT command fails
(which right now happens sometimes), we end up in a state where we can't try again,
because the context is already activated. So we can't really find the best way to do
this...
I guess you would have to build in logic to retry the command as part of
the .read_settings operation. In other words, try to retry your AT$MAGIC
command several times prior to giving up. Or contact your modem vendor
to fix their firmware :)
Another issue I wanted to ask is that when we get an automatic context activation on 4G,
we don't get the APN set from the network in the AT+CGDCONT? response. According to
Quectel, this is just how their modem work. It will only show manually set APN from that
response. Is this normal for any other modules? And how to solve the problem that ofono
wants the APN when calling ofono_gprs_cid_activated when we get the CGEV saying the PDN is
active?
By 4G you mean UMTS/UTRAN, not LTE/EUTRAN, right? Not sure anyone
really tested UMTS network-activated contexts, all testing was focused
on LTE, but in theory they should work just the same. The key
difference might be that the default bearer for LTE is usually still
defined on the ME, so +CGDCONT would work for those contexts and not for
truly dynamic network activated ones.
According to 27.007, +CGDCONT is only used to define parameters. For
obtaining 'dynamic' parameters, CGCONTRDP should be used instead.
Perhaps the AT modem driver should be using CGCONTRDP instead of
+CGDCONT when issuing ofono_gprs_cid_activated.
Regards,
-Denis