Re: ANNOUNCE: Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 07:08 -0700, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Verizon broadband card and my experience has been that the
> card acts as a modem.  I also use Fedora 7 and setting up the device
> in the Network applet as a modem allows NM to control the card as a
> dial-up connection.  The specific card support is still required from
> the Verizon software to program the card for specific stuff (tower
> info, other programming - SPL).  Although it would be nice to have
> some kind of signal strength meter...

Unfortunately, the interfaces to get this additional data are all
proprietary vendor interfaces, with the exception of a few Sierra GSM
cards that accept AT commands on the second tty.  So this is not
currently possible without licensing the SDKs of each vendor and using
non-free, binary blobs.

Dan

> Michael
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Antti Kaijanmäki <antti kaijanmaki net> wrote:
> >
> >  to, 2008-04-10 kello 09:12 -0400, Matt Burkhardt kirjoitti:
> >
> > >
> >  > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 16:00 +0300, Antti Kaijanmäki wrote:
> >  > > Hello,
> >  > >
> >  > > to, 2008-04-10 kello 14:15 +0400, Vitja Makarov kirjoitti:
> >  > > > Hi!
> >  > > >
> >  > > > Nice to hear this. Are you going to add bluetooth support?
> >  > > >
> >  > > > vitja.
> >  > >
> >  > > I'm not going to add Bluetooth support to NetworkManager. At least
> >  > > that
> >  > > is not the plan right now. However there are some couple of weeks
> >  > > reserved for working on NetworkManager itself and thus if it's later
> >  > > decided I should work on Bluetooth support, I will.
> >  > >
> >  > >  -- Antti
> >  > >
> >  > > _______________________________________________
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> >  > > NetworkManager-list gnome org
> >  > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
> >  > I am so happy you're working on this.  I've been wanting to get a
> >  > mobile broadband card, but Verizon only supports Linux for their
> >  > Enterprise customers.
> >
> >  Unfortunately I can't make any promises regarding any particular mobile
> >  broadband card or dedicated data modem, but hopefully plenty of them get
> >  supported by the end of summer.
> >
> >   -- Antti
> >
> >
> >
> >  > --
> >  > Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
> >  > President
> >  > Impari Systems, Inc.
> >  > Phone:  (301) 644-3911
> >  > mlb imparisystems com
> >  > http://www.imparisystems.com
> >
> >
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