Re: suspend/deactivate devices in modem manager

["Mark Haack \(werk55.de\)" <Mark Haack werk55 de>]

Hi Dan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com>
To: "Mark Haack" <Mark Haack werk55 de>
Cc: <networkmanager-list gnome org>; "Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: suspend/deactivate devices in modem manager


> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:12 +0100, Mark Haack wrote:
> > Hi Dan
> > Hi Ingo
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to disable particular devices in modem manager.
> > I.e.
> > (a) my application wants to handle a huwei device by it's own,
> > (b) without interupting the user for the configuration by the nm
> > applet, which means my app provides settings for it
> >
> > As far I can see the device support is compiled into the mm as
> > plugins? Is there
> > a external, configuration (xml) file, which declares that product id +
> > vendor id belongs to a certain plugin.
>
> The plugins each are responsible for detecting what devices they handle.
> At this point it's a combination of driver name matching ('hso' for
> example) and USB vid/pid matching.  I generally stay away from
> explicitly listing devices in udev rules files (like windows .INF files
> always do) because that's a huge pain to maintain.
>
> But given that most configurations are not going to have multiple mobile
> broadband devices, perhaps your configurations don't want to run
> ModemManager then?
>
> Dan

you´re right. For my configuration I choose the following design.
I stop the networkmanager  if app begins the operation and restart it after 
all is done.
So in that case, there is no competition with each other. App can handles 
all of its own, despite of all the wifi goodies in nm.

I would like to use more of nm, but there some missing crunch points

1. a modem manager fascade to use my own modem manager implementation 
dynamically
2. or a plugin api for UI elements to customize it. (there is dbus okay, but 
I cant stop annoying nm dialogs)


BR
Mark