On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Chris Frey <cdf...@foursquare.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:13:33PM -0500, Darren Albers wrote: >> I am considering replacing my Blackberry plus Aircard with just a >> tethering plan. I see that Barry allows the use of a Blackberry >> tethered using a chat script but does it permit the device to be >> detected by Network Manager as a GSM/CDMA modem? > > Hi Darren, and welcome to Barry! > > There is nothing special in Barry to make the modem easy to use via any GUI. > All it installs is the library, pppob (the command line tunnel to the > modem), and some ppp options files and chatscripts under /etc/ppp and > /etc/chatscripts, if you are using binary packages. > > >> If it just presents itself as a serial port it may just need a .fdi so >> that it can be recognized. If that is all it takes I may be able to >> help with that. > > That would be great. Please send any patches to the list, and keep us posted. > > >> I also see some back and forth on the Blackberry Bold, if I use the >> version via CVS does the bold work properly? > > As you are probably seeing on the list, some features, like password support > are a work in progress. Best way to find out for yourself is to try. > > The latest CVS is fairly stable for a devel tree, and does have fixes that are > not in 0.14. > > - Chris
I don't think this is going to work with NetworkManager as it is now. Is there any way to call pppob directly and have it create a standard serial type interface? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
