[OpenWrt-Devel] Current State of NCM support

[Jakub Jančo]

For me the main problem is that even single manufactor(huawei) build
firmwares for same proto(NCM) with non consistent config.
e.g. : one NCM works with /dev/cdc-wdm0, but another only with
/dev/ttyUSB0 event if it has cdc-wdm0.

1)
Your config should be OK for NCM, you can specify preferred
mode(onlylte,prefer lte ...)
luci-proto-3g, wwan are not required

2)
comgt - comgt binary, 3g support
comgt-ncm - adds suppot for NCM protocol - you can use NCM as proto
- you dont need wwan package

wwan - adds proto wwan - it is autoconfiguration for more usb modem
technologies - autodection of used usb modem and automatically choice
of best suited proto (3g, ncm an another 4g proto choices)
- you need comgt-ncm if you want use wwan with ncm dongle
- I have problem with this that it will find serial console on NCM
device and choose 3G proto instead of NCM

4)
luci-proto-3g - not required for ncm - it turns ncm into compatible 3g mode
- I use luci-proto-ncm from
https://sites.google.com/site/variousopenwrt/huawei-e3267 - but I
think it is not in official repo

In fact ncm can work with 3g, so you can use luci-proto-3g but it
turns ncm device to ppp mode with lower speeds.









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S pozdravom Jakub Janco


On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Tristan Collins
<tristan+openwrt at mailforce.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Over the last year or so there has been some communication of issues / improvements to NCM support with Openwrt, e.g.:
>
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-March/032225.html
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-October/036345.html
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-January/030890.html
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2016-February/039551.html
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2016-February/039562.html
>
> Can I check what is the 'correct' way to be using an NCM dongle (specifically a Huawei E3276 in my case) and what behaviour should be expected?
>
> I'll be happy to update the wiki with the output of this.
>
> I have an old CC trunk build (r44497) from last year with some modifications supplied by the contributors above. The packages I ended up installing (after a lot of Googling and trial / error) were:
>
> comgt - 0.32-24
> comgt-ncm - 0.32-24
> kmod-usb-net-cdc-ether - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-net-cdc-ncm - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-net-huawei-cdc-ncm - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-serial - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-serial-option - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-serial-wwan - 3.18.7-1
> kmod-usb-wdm - 3.18.7-1
> luci-proto-3g - git-15.050.70406-47603a3-1
> usb-modeswitch - 2014-08-26-993a9a542791953c4804f7ddbb3a07756738e37a
> wwan - 2014-07-17-1
>
> With these packages and the configuration below I have the behaviour I would expect (hotplug working _most_ of the time).
>
> config interface 'wan'
>        option proto 'ncm'
>        option apn 'APNNAME'
>        option username 'USRNAME'
>        option password 'PASSWD'
>        option device '/dev/cdc-wdm0'
>        option delay '30'
>
> I've just done a clean build of CC (15.05) with what I _assumed_ were the required packages as above.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Are all these packages required and what is the correct config?
> 2) Are multiple packages providing the same functionality? e.g, comgt-ncm & wwan?
> 3) Have the patches submitted over the last year made it in to CC 15.05.1 or DD?
> 4) Are we any closer to having NCM dongles configured and operating info provided via Luci?
>
> With the same configuration on the latest build the dongle connects on boot, but not when hotplugged - ifup wan needs issued. (This behaviour was noted by Thomas Baag on an email to devel on 11/12/2015, with a workaround)
>
> Aleksandr Kolesnik submitted patches to luci-proto-wwan to allow ncm configuration via the wwan package. Has this been incorporated and does it fit with the 'accepted' use of NCM dongles?
>
> It seems as though there was some lost progress when certain contributors left but the code is still out there in a potentially usable form if documented.
>
> Tristan
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