[OpenWrt-Devel] Advice needed - Proper approach to port 5G/LTE modem into OpenWRT

Jeonghum Joh oosaprogrammer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 22:41:16 EDT 2020


Hello Bruno,

I want to share the informations you mentioned. I will check with my
company first and then if they let me do, I will share with you all.

Thank you.
Jeonghum

2020년 4월 27일 (월) 오후 11:53, Bruno Antunes <baantunes at gmail.com>님이 작성:

> Hello Jeonghum,
> Can you share some details on the boards and modems you are using?
>
> Regards,
> Bruno
>
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 13:42, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> >
> > Jeonghum Joh <oosaprogrammer at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am porting a 5G/LTE modem into OpenWRT.
> >
> > Follow the instructions for LTE modems.  A 5G modem is pretty much the
> > same wrt drivers and basic management.  At least for Qualcomm based
> > modems on a USB bus.  Have no experience with anything else.  The Intel
> > and Huawei modems are competely unknown to me, and most likely
> > unsupported for the forseeable future.  And I'm also blank on the magic
> > of Qualcomms PCIe interface. Qualcomm did work on a driver, but it's
> > been a long time since I saw any update on that.  I guess no one cares
> > enough.  SuperSpeed USB is fine for most users for now.
> >
> > Anyway, several X55 based modems are already supported out of the box in
> > OpenWrt master.  There is no need to reinvent the wheel if you are using
> > one of those.
> >
> > You may obviously decide to implement your own alternative solutions,
> > like using some vendor software. But that will limit the user community
> > severely. At least until the solution attracts more users.  And
> > community support depends on users, which I believe is something you
> > should consider since you have ended up in this forum.  You are unlikely
> > to find anyone here who have any experience with your particular vendor
> > software version.
> >
> > Personally, I am happy to give advice about anything regardless of
> > experience.  But the quality of that advice is probably a tiny bit
> > better when it is based on something I've tried myself.  Or maybe not?
> > Is probably bad in any case.
> >
> >
> > Bjørn
> >
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