Re: Roadmap question

["John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com>]

> Well, WiMAX bits would certainly require a configuration interface of
> some kind to be able to receive stuff like strength and maybe other
> tunables.  But GSM/CDMA cards get away without this sort of thing
> because they simply present a serial interface that you can dial and
> talk PPP over.

Posting this link so it does not get lost; some code may be useful

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-cellmodem-plugin

The xfce cellmodem panel applet appears to do some sort of status and
strength monitoring. Not sure if you could generalise this beyond what
they have done (a whitelist) as I am not sure how standardised the
various AT and non AT command based ways are of getting signal
strength.

John