Re: Franklin Wireless u770 and other modems with a web-ui

["Shawn J. Goff" <shawn goff accelecon com>]

On Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:52:48 AM EST, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:29 -0500, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
> > I have a Franklin Wireless u770 modem here that ModemManager doesn't
> > know how to deal with. Its configuration is all done through a web
> > interface. Is there any interest or existing effort to get ModemManager
> > to handle this type?
>
> It depends on the functionality of the device and how far we'd go to try
> to shoehorn it into the MM model.  If all the webui really supports is
> signal strength, operator, and registration, then perhaps it's not worth
> supporting.
>
> We already want to handle "upstream provider" information in
> NetworkManager for interfaces that look like etherent (eg, iPhone
> tethering which reports signal strength and stuff via mDNS) but clearly
> are WWAN.  These aren't suitable to be handled by ModemManager because
> there simply isn't a reason to; most of the MM dbus interface would be
> useless, and in the end, they don't need any kind of control.
>
> Perhaps the best way to support these devices (as long as they don't
> need any extensive) is like the iPhone; since they are usable
> immediately after plugging in just like ethernet is, we just handle them
> like ethernet devices and then have small helpers that scrape the HTML
> for "upstream provider" information like signal strength, operator name,
> roaming/not roaming, etc, and have NetworkManager export a D-Bus
> interface for that info that GUI applets can use.
>
> Dan

The web interface has connection information like RSSI, Ec/Io, and 
access technology. It also provides the ability to disconnect it and to 
change settings like autoconnect and access technology and to disable 
the radio (airplane mode). I don't see any way to specify an APN for 
the LTE mode.

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