On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 08:15:34PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:12:04AM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > >> It's a MBIM (Mobile Broadband Interface Model) device: > >> > >> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt > > > > Thanks for the info. Sounds like a new driver is needed or lots of work > > to extend umsm(4). If my research is correct, the older cards supported > > by umsm(4) would be supported by the qcserial driver in Linux which is > > totally different than this cdc_mbim driver. I will research the > > situation further. For now I have an expensive Mini PCIe slot filler. > > The vast majority of the devices supported by umsm(4) under OpenBSD > require the "option" kernel module on Linux, the USB driver for GSM > and CDMA modems. > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/usb/serial/option.c > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USB_mobile_broadband_modem
Assuming MBIM is something that would be worked on, would it make sense to extend umsm(4) to support it or would it make more sense to have a new driver like umbim(4) or something? Bryan
