Re: UMTS & status

["Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:23 +0200, Cyril Jaquier wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I'm wondering if it would be possible to add some kind of signal
>> strength/quality while connected to an GSM/UMTS network. I know umtsmon
>> displays such information but I don't know if there is a standard way to
>> get them.
>
> Yes, after 0.7 comes out.  The issue is that different cards use
> different methods, and for other cards we can't get the signal strength
> out of them at all (single-port cards mainly).  But it will happen.

Or, if you want to see the future today, check out ModemManager
(http://gitorious.org/projects/modemmanager). The checkout contains
patches to make NetworkManager and nm-applet use it.

Tambet