Re: Network-Manager and Tethered Blackberry's

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 20:33 -0500, Darren Albers wrote:
>> 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?
>
> is /dev/bbmodem0 a serial port you can connect to with minicom and do a
> minimal ATI or AT+GCAP or something?  Can you grab that output for me if
> you can get it?
>
> Next, you'll want the /sbin/lsusb information for the BB for now, look
> for the block that has "/dev/bbmodem0" in it, which you can use to
> modify 10-modem.fdi.
>
> Dan
>
>
>

If I connect with a Password on the device it first tells me "ERROR NO
PASSWORD".   I will need to see if I can figure out the syntax it
expects, Barry has really good documentation so I should be able to
find that.

Once I disable the password on the device I get:

OK
ATI
Research In Motion BlackBerry IP Modem

OK
AT+GCAP
+GCAP:

OK

I see the following in /var/log/messages if it matters:
Jan 27 22:17:47 darren-PC kernel: [348535.517325] blackberry:
modem_close(528) - <7CharacterBBPINRemoved> tx = 47 rx = 1 rx_special
= 1 rx_data = 0 extra_space = 1533 max_rx = 28

The information from lsusb is:
Bus 008 Device 015: ID 0fca:8004 Research In Motion, Ltd.

So guessing based on other devices I should add something like this?
     <!-- Vendor: Research in Motion -->
      <match key="@info.parent:usb.vendor_id" int="0xofca">
        <!-- Research in Motion Blackberry Bold -->
        <match key="@info.parent:usb.product_id" int="0x8004">
          <match key="@info.parent:usb.interface.number" int="0">
            <match key="serial.port" int="0">
              <append key="modem.command_sets" type="strlist">GSM-07.07</append>
              <append key="modem.command_sets" type="strlist">GSM-07.05</append>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>
      </match>