Putting a bit more thought into this, I'm a bit concerned by regressing user. The plus side, as per our face-to-face discussion, there are not many modem users, but still... maybe I'd like to investigate some possibilities.
Reading up on the modemmanager page gave me some necessary context here. I agree with the upstream decision not to unlock modems automatically and their recommendation for distributions not doing it automatically as well. That being said, 20.04 has been released with auto-unlocking, so this feels like going against our stability principles in Ubuntu. Some question here regarding this: does the new modemmanager add some new FCC locked modems in 1.18 in comparison to 1.16? Since one fair way to go forward in my eyes (at least right now) would be to keep auto-unlocking the previously supported modems but require manual unlocks of the new ones. Are there any new ones? Or does this basically only relate and lock down those that were previously available? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to modemmanager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965901 Title: SRU the new 1.18 serie to focal for hwe Status in libmbim package in Ubuntu: New Status in libqmi package in Ubuntu: New Status in modemmanager package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: [Impact] We want to update to the newer serie for better hardware support (support for Quectel EM120R-GL and EM160R-GL) [Test Plan] * install modemmanager, libmbim, and libqmi from -proposed * reboot and try WWAN function to see if any regression there. * perform general dogfooding of its reverse dependencies (network- manager, gnome-control-center etc.) [Where problems could occur] The new version no longer automatically performs the FCC unlock procedure by default, see details on https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/fcc-unlock/ It means some modem will stop working out of the box. Users can manually install the unlock utility as described in the "FCC unlock procedures in ModemManager >= 1.18.4" section in the page above. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmbim/+bug/1965901/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
