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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 11:11 -0500, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
> 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.

In that case, maybe it does make sense to support it in ModemManager.
Mind posting the HTML source for the status page?

Dan