Re: Network-Manager and Tethered Blackberry's

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> I recently replaced my trusty Aircard 860 with a Blackberry Bold (So I
> no longer had to carry a Blackberry and an Aircard).
>
> The device works great using Barry
> (http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/) and their provided
> chatscript but it uses the pty option to call their application called
> pppob which is used to communicate with the blackberry and initialize
> modem mode.
>
> I assume there is no way for Network-Manager to call the pty option?
>

Rick from the Barry Mailing list pointed me to his application
XmBlackberry which allows the Blackberry to be called over
/dev/bbmodem0

Is there any documentation on what is needed in the 10-modem.fdi so
that Network Manager can recognize this device as a GSM Modem?

Thanks!