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Evil_Hamster

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Registered: 2021-01-14

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QMI connection - Internet via sim card. Is it possible?

Hi all.

I have read the following on the arch wiki
"It is not yet (September 2014) possible to initialize a QMI modem for use on Linux"

But 2014 is ages ago... how is the situation now? Do I need to have a spare version of Windows on a hard drive, if I want to initialise a new sim card? Any other tricks?

Cheers.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: QMI connection - Internet via sim card. Is it possible?

I haven't used a mobile broadband modem in years, but when I did modemmanager was the tool to use.

The current version does depend on libqmi , which appears to be a helper library for modems using the qmi protocol .

I suggest you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mobile_broadband_modem thoroughly and try some of the things on it.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-06-29 11:06:58)

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Evil_Hamster

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Registered: 2021-01-14

Posts: 28

Re: QMI connection - Internet via sim card. Is it possible?

Thanks, appreciate the answer.

I will try and work using that link, but if anyone knows IF it is possible in the first place, I would appreciate if you could say so. Even if not known, how it is done.

Anyway. It will be some time, till I will get to try it, but if I should figure it out, I will try and write it in this post.
Cheers and laters.