Re: Supporting new Sierra CDMA modems.

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:08:11AM -0700, Chetan Karia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am an employee of Sierra wireless USA. I was testing network manager
> on Ubuntu 8.10. I found that all Sierra  CDMA modems worked well with
> network manager except our two new products which were not detected by
> Network Manager. On investigating further I discovered its just matter
> of adding the Vendor ID and Product ID of our new devices to the file
> "10-modem.fdi"  under the directory
> "/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/". Once I edit this file
> and add the VID/PID's the Network Manager detects the devices and
> connects to CDMA network. I wanted to know the procedure to officially
> add the VID/PID's of new Sierra device to 10-modem.fdi file, so that I
> do not have to edit it manually.

Please provide info on the exact pieces required.

One way to move foward would be to file a bug with that info against
hal-info [1] package in launchpad. We (ubuntu) takes care that info
submitted there regularly gets committed upstream.

 [1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+filebug

 - Alexander