Re: mbca: CDMA operator issues



ti, 2008-10-28 kello 11:03 -0400, Dan Williams kirjoitti:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:07 +0200, Antti Kaijanmäki wrote:
> > pe, 2008-10-24 kello 19:02 -0400, Dan Williams kirjoitti:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I notice the Wizard in Ubuntu also doesn't filter for CDMA vs. GSM,
> > > which can obviously be autodetected based on probing of the HAL
> > > information.  For a given GSM device, you shouldn't show CDMA, but for a
> > > given CDMA device, you shouldn't show GSM operators.  I plugged my
> > > Sprint card into an 8.10 beta system running NM packages from 2008-10-15
> > > and it just showed GSM providers, which obviously won't work for my
> > > card.
> > 
> > The reason why the wizard is showing only GSM providers is that the
> > database doesn't yet contain many CDMA providers :) 
> 
> The US should be mostly populated by now.

Thanks! :)


> > The list of operators could easily be filtered based on network type,
> > but libmbca API doesn't support that ATM :/
> 
> Should probably add that API then, it's pretty crucial.
> 

Well I don't think that it's _crucial_ because if the list of service
providers is complete for a given country then the user will choose the
CDMA setting from the list anyway. But it's anyway a problem and let's
see what we can do about this.


<snip>

> > > There's also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557819 which has
> > > a few more CDMA things for mbca.
> > 
> > I will look into this.
> 

This was a libmbca bug. It's now fixed in libmbca trunk. We are
preparing updates for Ubuntu ASAP.


 -- Antti

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