Re: Automatic re-connect script for 3G connections (van Schelve)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:03 +0200, van Schelve wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 22.10.2010, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Florian Hackenberger
> <f hackenberger chello at>:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > dcbw on #nm told me that van Schelve has a script at hand which 
> > automatically reconnects nm manager using a 3G connection.
> > 
> > van Schelve: Would you mind sharing that script with me?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, Florian
> 
> Hi!
> 
> That's not completely correct. I wrote a script to dialup a 3G
> connection conditionally. The intention for this script was to bring up
> a 3g connection during gnome-autostart when a user logs in and after
> suspend / resume.
> 
> I won't use the autoconnect feature from network-manager at that time.
> 
> Dan: I am interesting in automatically reconnect a broken mobile 3G
> connection as well ;-)

Yeah, this needs doing and I have some ideas for it.  I suppose we
should see if there's a way to physically cut power to the device if it
gets wedged too badly, which devices often do.  Any ideas on how to do
that?  There is some new kernel stuff in 2.6.35 and later that we can
try I think.

Dan