How can you get information from a WWAN embedded card from the command-line?

By | September 11, 2014
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Very useful broadband card information accessible via a quick command line:

netsh mbn show interfaces

Unfortunately, configuring the broadband card doesn’t appear to work.  I’m working with Microsoft and Sierra on this, but here is the error.

netsh mbn add profile interface=”Mobile Broadband” name=”C:\profile.xml”

returns either:

Add Profile Failure: Invalid Profile XML.

or

The Profile cannot be loaded.

/Brian

4 thoughts on “How can you get information from a WWAN embedded card from the command-line?

  1. Juhana Nyman

    I battled with the MBN profile issue for a while with the same results, and after detour with C# and MBN API, I learned that the netsh command failed because I the SubscriberID in the xml file I used was encrypted (came when I copied the “template” xml file from wwansvc-folder). After I put IMSI in the SubscriberID field as plaintext, the command succeeded.

    Props to Tilsk at Technet forums for the solution.

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  2. Chris Markis

    I’ve been searching for the “Powershell” or “Batch” commands to set up
    netsh mbn show interface

    There is 1 interface on the system:

    Name : Cellular
    Description : Generic Mobile Broadband Adapter
    GUID : {xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}
    Physical Address : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Additional PDP Context : No (Physical interface)
    Parent Interface Guid : No parent
    State : Not connected
    Device type : Mobile Broadband device is embedded in the system
    Cellular class : GSM
    Device Id : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Manufacturer : Sierra Wireless, Incorporated
    Model : MC7355
    Firmware Version : SWI9X15C_01.08.16.05
    Provider Name :
    Roaming : Not roaming
    Signal : 0%
    RSSI / RSCP : 0 (-113 dBm)

    I’m also interested in:
    Set Data Limit: “Unlimited”
    Monthly Reset Date: dayofmonth (let’s say I want to set it to “20th” of the month)

    How do I “command to make these changes?

    Reply

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