Re: Modem-/NetworkManager support for modems not using PPP

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 15:54 +0200, Marius Kotsbak wrote:
> On 21. april 2011 18:07, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 14:57 +0200, Marius Kotsbak wrote:
> >> It all depends on whether the modem gets detected correctly; there's
> >> some udev files for mapping the various IDs to a specific driver, and
> >> that driver determines whether to use PPP or the net interface.
> >> Unfortunately there's no standard for using the net interface so we have
> >> to use custom code for each device.
> 
> For those that finds this thread, I guess it is this property that
> selects the DHCP instead of PPP mode (found in grab_port):
> 
> g_object_set (G_OBJECT (gsm), MM_MODEM_IP_METHOD,
> MM_MODEM_IP_METHOD_DHCP, NULL);

Yeah, or STATIC (for Option and Icera devices) where the IP address is
communicated via custom AT commands instead of using DHCP.

Dan