RE: About DBus Interface specification

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 06:10 -0700, Nguyen Canh Toan wrote:
> Dear Mr.Dan,
> 
> I've read your recently uploaded spec and found it very different from what
> you uploaded before. However, I don't find any spec about sending/receiving
> SMS any more. I have also searched the mail-list and understood that at this
> time, you don't provide a full SMS functionality. 

That part of the spec is:

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/mm-spec-04.html#org.freedesktop.ModemManager.Modem.Gsm.SMS

> At present, my project needs those SMS functions. It would be very helpful
> of you if you could direct me how to use ModemManager(also NetworkManager)
> in order to make SMS functionality perform properly in the real world. I
> will certainly try my best to give contribution to your source repository.

At the moment though, only SMS sending is actually implemented for most
cards and in a generic fashion.  We've been concentrating on making the
actual data connections work as well as possible before moving on to the
SMS bits :(  Any help in this area would be appreciated though.  Other
implementations of the ModemManager specification like Wader (the actual
modem-manager program is only one implementation) do implement the full
SMS spec.

Dan

> Yours faithfully,
> Toan Nguyen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Williams [mailto:dcbw redhat com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:06 AM
> To: Nguyen Canh Toan
> Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: About DBus Interface specification
> 
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 22:11 -0700, Nguyen Canh Toan wrote: 
> > Dear Dan,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thank for your works about DBus Interface specification
> > http://www.bgiw.org/~dan/mm-spec.html
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > But when writing client application, I found it provide not enough
> > information. For example, 
> > 
> > With org.freedesktop.ModemManager.Modem Interface. I cannot find DBus
> > name also Object path in order to make methods call GetInfo() 
> 
> So that interface is actually provided by ModemManager, not by
> NetworkManager.  NetworkManager acts as the central controller daemon
> that coordinates between various pieces of hardware, while most specific
> hardware is driven by it's own service (wpa_supplicant, ModemManager,
> etc).
> 
> I've uploaded the generated spec to:
> 
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/mm-spec-04.html
> 
> It's the spec from git master though, so some of the stuff like
> AccessTechnology and SetAllowedMode hasn't shown up in a release quite
> yet.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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