@frollic check out this:
I recall there was a command you could use after unlocking the modem to engineering mode, to disable FCC auth permanently, but I can't find it right now. Did that on one of Lenovo-branded modules, Dell ones didn't require that.
Edit: found that. AT!PCFCCAUTH
command is your friend: https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/em7455-deactivate-low-power-mode/8620/6
When you successfully enter AT!OPENLOCK, its status becomes writable.
For MBIM support, you can cherry-pick my PR if you fancy building your image or just replacing mbim.sh
, it contains several fixes, tested on EM7455, however most of which didn't land in upstream yet. I need to come back and refactor it a tiny bit.