|
On 03/20/2013 11:28 AM, Shawn J. Goff
wrote:
I'm a co-worker of Shawn Goff and have been working on scraping information from the Frandlin U770's web interface. I've posted the information I've gathered so far on this modem at the following link: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. DanThe 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 https://bitbucket.org/accelecon/modemmanager/wiki/FranklinU770 I've documented the ability to tell the modem to connect, disconnect, switch between networks (3G, WiMAX, and LTE), get signal strength, obtain modem details, toggle airplane mode, and toggle auto-connect. If you have any questions, let me know. --
Nate Nathaniel J. Pleasant | Accelerated Concepts | Developer | 1-813-279-2557 www.acceleratedconcepts.com |