On 9/5/2014 7:24 PM, Bzzzz wrote:
On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:12:32 -0700 Matt Ventura<mattventura@mattventura.net> wrote:I'll probably file a bug report somewhere about this, but in the meantime, is there a way to just get it to ignore the card? Or does enabling mobile broadband in the menu activate the card without really doing anything? I don't want it using any unnecessary cpu/mem/power compared to before the update that broke this. Ace VenturaYou can fill a bug if you want, but I don't think it one. The problem is the MODEM is apparently not dissociable from the GPS. If it is really so, you're stuck.
They're dissociable in that they share a control channel (ttyUSB0 = control, ttyUSB1 = data, ttyUSB2 = GPS output) and they share the rfkill. However, before some update at some point (I don't know where exactly because ironically I used to have my rc.local rfkill the card to save some battery life since I didn't need GPS), n-m would allow me to leave the card in that state where I don't "Mobile Broadband" in the menu is disabled, but it didn't rfkill the card. If having MB enabled but not connected to any network does exactly the same thing, then that would be an acceptable solution to my problem. I can live with this regression since it's a bit of a corner case, but there's definitely at least one bug in all of this: it shouldn't be removing the option to (re)enable the card because it no longer sees it. Matt Ventura