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HighlightsLink to Highlights

This update improves overall WWAN connectivity robustness, handle some extra mobile operators (with special LTE registration configuration).

It also fixes VPN reconnect ion with WWAN and brings many other small improvements over connectivity.

Known issues

PIN and APN password resettingLink to PIN and APN password resetting

There is a known issue where setting the PIN clears the APN password, and setting the APN password clears the PIN. This occurs both when using GUI and the CLI.

If you did not specify a custom APN, you are not concerned by the issue.

If you did set both a PIN and a custom APN, you are concerned by the issue. Either the PIN or the APN password has been cleared (depending on the order you set them, only the last will be kept).

  • If the PIN has been cleaned, the gateway will not reconnect upon the next SIM removal/insertion or gateway restart (depending on your SIM configuration)
  • If the APN password has been cleared, the gateway will not be able to reconnect upon the next connection loss

In both of theses cases, apply the below workaround.

WorkaroundLink to Workaround

You need to set both value together within the same command.

nmcli con modify wwan gsm.pin "<pin>" gsm.password "<password>"
BASH 
nmcli con modify wwan gsm.pin "1989" gsm.password "Gdt_m9Tku$W&"

Once the workaround applied, you must not set the PIN / APN password again from the GUI or with independent commands.

SolutionLink to Solution

This issue will be fixed in the next release.

Changelog

LORIX OS 1.7.1Link to LORIX OS 1.7.1

AddedLink to Added

  • Add bash auto-completion packages for NetworkManager and ModemManager
  • [LOR-638] Add iperf3 package by default
  • [LOR-661] LTE: fix roaming and restrict APN information to matching operator ID and name
  • [LOR-666] Add wwan connection auto-connect status watcher

ChangedLink to Changed

  • [LOR-642] Disable default route on Ethernet over USB connection
  • [LOR-653] Update NetworkManager to v1.52 and nm-openvpn to 1.12
  • [LOR-654] ZLP support for Fibocom MC610 in wwan kernel driver
  • [LOR-664] Update mender client to 5.0.1
  • [LOR-648] Update Manager to v0.19

FixedLink to Fixed

  • [LOR-650] WWAN auto-connect stops when trying to reconnect when modem state is "disconnecting" (modem init failure)
  • [LOR-649] Workaround modem init failures by resetting modem if USB device is not available anymore

Manager v0.19.0Link to Manager v0.19.0

AddedLink to Added

  • Add command-line argument handling for debug and trace levels

ChangedLink to Changed

  • Refactor device and connection management
  • Refactor VPN management

FixedLink to Fixed

  • [MAN-441] Cannot change VPN username/password
  • [MAN-442] Bad modem is referenced by the manager in some cases, leading to errors in the GUI
  • [MAN-443] VPN does not reconnect on WWAN reconnection

Manager GUI v0.19.0Link to Manager GUI v0.19.0

AddedLink to Added

  • Implement active connection subscription and update connection handling (eth & wwan)

ChangedLink to Changed

  • Live refresh of eth device stats
  • Refactor VPN profile management
  • Improve network pages loading speed

FixLink to Fix

  • [MAN-441] Cannot change VPN username/password
  • [MAN-444] Wrong PIN attempts left after a failed attempt

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