Jeff Geerling

@Toomoch - Indeed it does not, but it is still a card that I would like to validate as working (or not) and how to get it working, and since...

``` $ sudo lsusb -v Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1199:90c3 Sierra Wireless, Inc. Sierra Wireless EM7565 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00...

Just checking; don't see anything loading in `dmesg`, and: ``` pi@pi-router:~ $ sudo apt install -y modemmanager pi@pi-router:~ $ mmcli -L No modems were found ``` It looks like I'll...

On the Waveshare board, to control the modem's power: ``` pi@pi-router:~ $ echo "6" > /sys/class/gpio/export pi@pi-router:~ $ echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio6/direction pi@pi-router:~ $ echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio6/value pi@pi-router:~ $...

I just registered an account at https://login.sierrawireless.io/session/signup — I didn't find any way through the website itself to sign up, I had to find that by googling 'Sierra Wireless Registration'.

Haven't had a chance to finish that yet, I'm going to put that off a bit. One thing I've notice is there are a _lot_ of different Sierra modems out...

@shayne - Could you open a new issue for it so we can track how you got it working there? I'm assuming you mean [this card](https://www.simcom.com/product/SIM8200EA_M2.html)?

For OpenWRT, I went into `menuconfig` and selected: ``` Kernel modules -> USB support -> Support for Sierra Wireless devices (kmod-usb-net-sierrawireless) ``` (`kmod-usb-net` and `kmod-usb-net-lan78xx` were already selected by default,...

Built an OpenWRT image using [these instructions](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem): ``` make -j $(nproc) kernel_menuconfig make -j $(nproc) defconfig download clean world ```

Working further on this in https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-router