[QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

[Nick]

Quoth Michael Spacefalcon: 
> Because I am the kind of guy who finds it easier to write his own
> program than to learn how to use one that already exists, I've been
> using my own ad hack tool called engcons to talk AT commands to the
> modem in my Neo FR.  The engcons.c source is appended at the end of
> this post; you'll need to compile and run it on your FR.  Use it like
> this:
> 
> # stop QtMoko
> /etc/init.d/qtmoko-neo stop
> # power-cycle the modem
> echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on
> # run engcons to talk AT commands
> engcons /dev/ttySAC0 r115200
> 
> Once you do the above, you should be in a state where you can type AT
> commands and see the expected responses.  Try AT+CGMI, AT+CGMM, AT+CGMR,
> AT+CFUN=1, AT+COPS and AT+COPS=?, and post the results you get.

OK, I compiled engcons.c on my FR. It took a bit of doing, 'cos the 
uSD reader is broken, so I am very space-limited (so apt-get doesn't 
work), but eventually I got gcc & libc6-dev installed with dpkg.

Interesting results:

root at neo:~# ./engcons /dev/ttySAC0 r115200
Starting session
AT-Command Interpreter ready
OK
AT+CGMI
+CGMI: FIC/OpenMoko
OK
AT+CGMM
+CGMM: "Neo1973 GTA01/GTA02 Embedded GSM Modem"
OK
AT+CGMR
+CGMR: "GSM: gsm_ac_gp_fd_pu_em_cph_ds_vc_cal35_ri_36_amd8_ts0-Moko11"
OK
AT+CFUN=1
OK
AT+COPS=?
+COPS: (1,"T-Mobile ","T-Mobile","310260")
OK

In a different session I ran AT+COPS, but it never seemed to return, so
I cycled the modem power and started again, and AT+COPS=? returned.

If I'm not mistaken the above means that only T-Mobile is found.  
Which I'm guessing implies that AT&T have decided to turn off GSM 
here. Which would be ... annoying.

Nick