Re: Support for ADSL modems

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 23:39 +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > I personally have some random Zoom ueagle III based device, so I can at
> > least help test the carrier stuff and device detection.
> 
> Cool, thanks :) For now I have a problem in the device detection path, it seems
> NetworkManager needs an interface index otherwise it refuses to enable the
> device. I can't find an interface index number for my ueagle-atm0 interface
> so for now I have a hack that returns a fake one, but this will need to be fixed
> in a better way.

Hmm, it shouldn't since modems don't have them either, nor do bluetooth
devices.  I'm pretty sure you shouldn't need them.  What's the code that
you're trying to use that wants one?  We might need a slightly different
approach.

> > They are actually pretty stable at this point, though the change in the
> > D-Bus API may cause you some issues.  But as code churn goes we're
> > almost ready for a release of 0.9 so it's not going to change much.
> > That said, I'd expect the work on either 0.8.x or 0.9 to port back and
> > forth without much of a problem since those bits of the code haven't
> > changed much.
> 
> Great, this has been my assessment as well :)
> 
> >> Are there instructions for how to install the git versions of
> >> NetworkManager/nm-applet
> >> in parallel with the system-provided ones (e.g., under /opt) so that
> >> one can experiment
> >> with them without breaking existing networking functionality?
> 
> > Not really, you can certainly install the binaries and libraries into a
> > different prefix (configure with --prefix, --libdir, --localstatedir, as
> > appropriate) but of course you cannot run old NM + new NM at the same
> > time because they would try to manage the same devices, plus the bus
> > name is the same.  But it may work to just kill the old one and start
> > the new one.
> 
> Ok, I made a blog post on the procedure I used myself under ubuntu
> (it may look a little complex with the dpkg-diverts and all but this way
> I can develop on my regular laptop, the security updates can modify
> any of the files in the system-version of NM without problem and
> I can script switching between the 2 versions of NM and the applet
> without problem.
> 
> http://polytechnitis.blogspot.com/2011/05/compiling-latest-versions-of.html
> 
> > Let me know how things go, great to hear you're working on this.
> 
> Great, I will try to push code somewhere soonish.

I'm happy to review and suggest, thanks!

Dan