Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 17:17 +0000, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
> 1: if the firmware is not installed show the dialog to the user
>    if it is hal will load it

Load it meaning "place it on disk in the right place" ?

> 2: setup the modem (run br2684ctl, change some options on /proc, ...)
> 3: need to dial the concection (using network-admin??)

In the Fedora case 2 & 3 are handled by the supplied supporting scripts
and the system-config-network tool. Might be useful to look at how that
is done in case there are good ideas for making network-admin handle it
nicely.

> 4: have a nice dialog showing we are connected (network-admin, an
> applet??)

Also probably bytes sent/received. At least in the UK some of our
providers now offer cheap but volume limited connections...

Alan