Re: 3G band/roaming preference?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:11 +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> I'm new here and I've subscribed to this list to find a reliable answer to two 
> questions. 
> 
> First one: does NM 0.8 support 2G/3G preference and roaming preference? (where 
> "support" to me means that if I install the latest NM with latest nm-applet 
> and ModemManager I get a GUI for selecting my preference and this gui is 
> supposed to work). Rumors [1] say it "will" provide those functionalities when 
> ModemManager "will" be checked in, which now has already happened to my 
> understanding. 

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/22/qualified-to-satisfy-you/

All of this is in NM, nm-applet, and MM git master.  It's also been
built into Fedora 12, 13, and rawhide for at least 3 weeks or so.  So
yeah, it's live.

BUT it's not in a real release yet.  It's on target for the 0.8.1
release, which should happen soon-ish, since I think we've got enough
stuff in the release now that we should just cut it and move the other
stuff on the ReleaseProcess page up to 0.8.2.

Please note that not all GSM modems support the 2G/3G preference yet.
Most of the common ones (Option, Huawei, Sierra, Ericsson, and ZTE) do,
but if it's not one of those, chances are it won't work because we don't
know the AT commands for locking the mode yet.

> Other rumors [2] say we have to wait for NM 0.8.1, but also that Fedora 
> already has most of those gadgets up&running (despite 0.8.1 is not out yet).
> 
> NM Wiki [3] doesn't help much 'cause it says nothing about that.
> 
> 1. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-
> February/msg00049.html
> 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/07/networkmanager-0-8-the-taste-of-a-
> new-generation
> 3. http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ReleaseProcess
> 
> What is the real truth?
> 
> Second question (less important, because it's not the correct list to ask): is 
> it possible to install a new NM version (which supports 2g/3g preference) in 
> Ubuntu 9.10 without upgrading the whole system? 

This would probably work, since it all builds on Fedora 12 too which
came out only a few months after 9.10.  So I'd imagine the build
requirements are all satisfied by 9.10.  I'm pretty sure 9.04 won't
work, since the version of udev/gudev there is unlikely to be new
enough.

Dan