When switching from MM to ofono, I am no longer able to activate a data connection through NM.
I have deleted the uuid & device-id properties in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/T-Mobile LTE.nmconnection, as past experience has shown that to work for making portable wifi connection profiles.
NetworkManager[261]: <info> [1601840771.5592] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="dabc7606-f4fd-4dcd-b607-98dcfd8e7807" name="T-Mobile LTE" pid=611 uid=1000 result="fail" reason="Connection 'T-Mobile LTE' is not available on device quectelqmi_0 because profile is not compatible with device (modem is incompatible with connection: device has differing device-id than GSM profile)
I don't have any familiarity with NetworkManager's ofono support, and it's possible this would be better asked at an upstream bug tracker. I'm more familiar with using ofonoctl, a script that interacts with
ofonod
via DBus and can set up data connections using the Linuxip
command. In general, the only steps necessary to set up networking with ofono are: poweron the modem, online the modem, and configure the appropriate Linux network interface based on settings determined by ofono--these are what ofonoctl does.Presumably, NetworkManager's ofono support does something similar. For the particular error message you're seeing, it seems that NetworkManager uses the modem's short name (
quectelqmi_0
in this case), and expects this to match the name given in the NM GSM profile. What I don't know is where the GSM profile is defined or what it's likely to look like for you.Hopefully this helps.
I was able to move this further along. The "GSM profile" is simply the .nmconnection and the device-id is I believe some type of hash that NM creates. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I was getting that error after deleting the device-id property. I may have forgotten some detail.
However, after resolving that I was getting
Error: Connection activation failed: Connection 'ofono' is not available on device quectelqmi_0 because profile is not compatible with device (modem is incompatible with connection: the connection ID has no context)
which comes from src/devices/wwan/nm-modem-ofono.c
It turns out that the ofono plugin is very specific about the connection id. I am guessing this is by ofono design because connman uses a similar syntax for managing ofono connections and looking at the connman connection was key to setting a connection id that NM will accept.
$ enable-modem $ online-modem $ connmanctl connmanctl> services
Which spits out a carrier ID and something that looks like
cellular_#imsi#_context1
Using that,
$ nmcli c connection-id edit nmcli>set connection.id cellular/#imsi#/context1
/'s are important
Now, it tries to connect, but stalls out on:
NetworkManager[260]: <info> [1601915316.9656] device (quectelqmi_0): Activation: starting connection 'cellular/310260098374532/context1' (144b21c9-17f2-3776-9b2d-a463cdab88db) NetworkManager[260]: <info> [1601915316.9662] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="144b21c9-17f2-3776-9b2d-a463cdab88db" name="cellular/310260098374532/context1" pid=745 uid=1000 result="success" NetworkManager[260]: <info> [1601915316.9671] device (quectelqmi_0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[260]: <info> [1601915316.9708] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTING NetworkManager[260]: <info> [1601915316.9724] modem-ofono[quectelqmi_0]: activating context /quectelqmi_0/context1