Didneywhorl wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:49 pm I've heard that modemmanager is pretty dang good in vanilla openWRT. I need to spend more time with it and its mmcli tools.

You got it, that's exactly what I used. Added the modemmanager package and added a new interface which let me attach the Quectel directly as the device and boom, all good.