Hector Martin

MM used to do it for FTDI devices too, but distros (or at least Ubuntu) eventually disabled it (presumably after too many "maker"-type people complained).

Yeah, that fix wasn't in last time I has to kill it with fire. I use an LTE modem with a Raspberry Pi on an autonomous device. No ModemManager. All I had to do was set the modem to autoconnect mode with qmi. It shows up as an Ethernet device and you just DHCP off of it.

I did have to write a little cronjob to monitor the IP via qmi and force a DHCP refresh on changes, but that's just because my ISP is retarded and drops the connection every hour or so (and waiting for the lease to expire sucks).

whatever modem I had (might not have been LTE on second thought) was an AT command set device.

In my time we used wvdial for AT modems (3G or 9600 baud alike) and we liked it :P

you've read the original tweet, right this is the exact attitude i cannot stand

I know, I know, but tbh dumping some init strings into wvdial isn't exactly rocket science. All I'm really saying is MM shouldn't be installed by default and sure as hell shouldn't be a hard dependency of anything. But if you need it by all means.