Re: [PATCH] hal probe modem caps ondemand

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:10 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > > Probe CDC-ACM modems, found in most cell phones on the fly, using
> > > AT+GCAP modem command.
> > > I tested it with 1 Nokia GSM phone, and 2 CDMA.
> > 
> > Great!  Thanks for writing this.
> > 
> > So what we can do now is remove all the matches for individual devices
> > in the fdi file, and just match on the driver name for nozomi, airprime,
> > option, and sierra.  We'll have a few left-over items that aren't driven
> > by those, but those devices will either use cdc_acm (and therefore be
> > probed) or we can just tag them to be probed automatically.  Not sure
> > how this works on BSD and Solaris though; if they don't have separate
> > drivers to run the mobile broadband cards then they'd have to revert
> > back to the per-device tagging to know when to probe and when not to
> > probe.
> 
> be careful with this. If the SIM card needs a PIN code first, we might
> not be able to send any AT commands at all. I tried for example to get
> the IMEI before entering the PIN, but that never worked on the cards
> that I own.

Hmm, does that mean the device will only respond to AT+CPIN"xxxx" until
you give it the PIN?

Dan