Re: 3g command line

[Lennert Jansen <lennert twixel be>]

On 12/02/2010 05:00 PM, Ma Begaj wrote:
> 2010/12/2 Lennert Jansen<lennert twixel be>:
>    
> > Hi there,
> >
> > As I'm completely new&  surprised by network manager, my option GMT 382E
> > umts card got working instantly, 3g with Proximus in Belgium.
> > However, I'd like to use these kind of card with ubuntu server install, and
> > would like to know the commands to get this working from the command-line.
> >
> > Any tips are welcome, seems I can't figure this out...
> >      
> use nm-cli to list, start and stop connections.
>
> you can connect with VNC to your server to create initial connection
> settings or you
> could import/set everything gconftool-2.
>
> here is a discussion about that:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-November/msg00082.html
>    

Ok, so to do it the 'nm' - way, I should generate a configuration that 
works on a pc with a graphical environment and load it via gconftool.

Problem is that these pc's run on small flash cards so they cannot 
afford to have a graphical environment.
I can install the same ubuntu on a sata disk and generate config, and 
load that config on the pc with the flash card.

In that case, is nm monitoring the connection? Can I read out 
cellular/3g-reception somewhere from command line?

Many thanks,
L.