Re: NM using Option card

["Pablo Martí Gamboa" <pmarti warp es>]

On Feb 8, 2008 5:08 PM,  <networkmanager-list-request gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:54:28AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > We've been talking to the VMC developers, who have added a D-Bus
> > interface to VMC.  You're right, it's pointless to have many projects
> > duplicate the same quirks and workarounds for cards, and using some
> > existing tool is the way to go.  Since VMC is adding the D-Bus
> > interface, Tambet and I thought that using VMC like we currently use
> > wpa_supplicant would be a good option.
>
> Did you ever look at VMC? IMHO it is much too heavyweight to be a backend
> for a system daemon like NM. And it supported almost no hardware the last
> time i looked (a few weeks ago).

Hi :)

I'm a VMC developer so I have to say something here :)

This are the contents of the device plugins dir:

huawei_e172.py huawei_e220.py huawei_e270.py
huawei_e272.py huawei_e620.py huawei_e660a.py
huawei_e660.py huawei_e870.py novatel_ovation.py
novatel_u630.py novatel_u740.py novatel_xu870.py
option_colt.py option_etna.py option_globesurfericon.py
option_gtfusion.py option_gtfusionquadlite.py
option_gtm378.py option_gtmax36.py
option_nozomi.py sierrawireless_875.py
zte_mf620.py

Some of the plugins are fully tested by us (50%) and the rest
contributed by users, but work (some better than others) to some
extent. The number (22) aint that great when you compare it with, say,
gammu/gnokki's support of mobiles. But this 22 devices are pretty much
whats available right now in most EMEA shops.

Current VMC core is too heavyweight yes, we're working on that. Once
the refactoring is done, vmc-core will be a lean package that will
just depend on python, python-twisted-core and python-dbus. Stay tuned
:)

Regards,

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