Re: ppp support naming



On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 08:56 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 19:38:23 Tambet Ingo wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Vitja Makarov <vitja makarov gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > >  I see it in the tree but I don't see it works, correct me if i'm wrong.
> >
> > It works for GSM and CDMA.
> 
> As far as I know, GSM and CDMA are instances of certain classes of cellular 
> networks, but GSM and CDMA themselves are not used globally.  
> 
> If I 'm right in this, it would make sense to internally name this support 
> something generic, like 2GCellular and 3GCellular and then the GUI can sort 
> out whether it refers to it as "CDMA" in EN_us or "3G" in EN_gb or "UMTS" in 
> de.  The flipside is users doing a "CDMA wtf?" when they try to use their 
> cellular card.

They're different protocols, and use different command sets. And those
strings don't appear in the UI either.



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