i'm trying to compile an openwrt image for raspberrypi 4 to support SimCom Sim8200EA-M2 5G dongle.
Simcom provide a custom qmi-wwan driver named "qmi-wwan-simcom", but it did't work well,
does anyone have a imge which supported Sim8200EA-M2 5G dongle?
I would say your best bet so far is to share your work - ideally as a kernel patch - and this community will help you out clean it up for a proper compile or even pull request
There is no need for a special driver for this modem. That's not how we do things in Linux. Just add the device ID to the existing qmi_wwan driver. It supports this modem just fine without any other changes.
I can prepare and submit a patch for the driver if you post the output of
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices
Note that this is what SIMCom should have done, instead of creating that mess. But I don't think they understand how any software works. At least not any open source.
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I have successfully compiled a version, but there are still problems with this version. Here are some logs of this system and the imgs.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13MC0WresaVVRtyi3KOAErxQio0AB5Mgn?usp=sharing
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 1
B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0002 Rev= 5.04
S: Manufacturer=Linux 5.4.51-v7l+ xhci-hcd
S: Product=xHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:01:00.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=256ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 4
D: Ver= 2.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=2109 ProdID=3431 Rev= 4.21
S: Product=USB2.0 Hub
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=256ms
T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=5000 MxCh= 4
B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 3.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=03 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0003 Rev= 5.04
S: Manufacturer=Linux 5.4.51-v7l+ xhci-hcd
S: Product=xHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:01:00.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=256ms
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=5000 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 3.20 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=1e0e ProdID=9001 Rev= 4.14
S: Manufacturer=QCOM
S: Product=SDXPRAIRIE-MTP _SN:B400B0EC
S: SerialNumber=0123456789ABCDEF
C:* #Ifs= 6 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=896mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=30 Driver=option
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=option
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=32ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=option
E: Ad=85(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=32ms
E: Ad=84(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 3 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=option
E: Ad=87(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=32ms
E: Ad=86(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 4 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=option
E: Ad=89(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=32ms
E: Ad=88(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=05(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
I:* If#= 5 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=qmi_wwan
E: Ad=8a(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=32ms
E: Ad=8e(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=0f(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms
So that looks fine. Both qmi_wwan and option bound to the correct interfaces. Simcom are still recycling this single device ID, used for a number of other modems. This way there is nothing to patch for new models. Just other issues..
You will have to describe the problems. Having others guess what you mean is a very inefficient form of communication.
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