On 04/10/10 16:10, Michael Scherer wrote:
Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 11:44 +0100, doug a écrit :
Can I put in a plea on behalf of users who can't even use a
telephone hook-up because of the appalling phone connection,
e.g. in a rural area through Telecom Italia, and are obliged
to depend on a 'dongle'?
I found an installation procedure for my dongle freely
available on the internet; it's not proprietary. In fact the
Windows installation disk that comes with the dongle itself
uses it. AFAICT it's the details of the dialer defaults, in
particular the init strings, that would have to be sorted
out for different broadband providers.
If you have information to share, you should fill a bug report.
I'm not clear where I could file a bug report.
I can certainly set out what worked for me with Mandriva
2009.1 for a particular provider. It didn't seem especially
complicated; the main problem was tracking down the relevant
information in the first place.
So where would I send it?
Developers cannot really track down every provider on the planet.
No, i must confess that I didn't use a modem since a long time ( the
only one I used is the one of my mobile phone, and I used wvdial (not
user friendly) and network-manager ( not sure it can work with non 3g
modem )), so I cannot really tell where to look for filling a bug
report.
But I think you are right and that's important to make sure that it work
fine.
<quote from later in this thread>...............................
> > Of course I'm not suggesting that we collect the dial
settings and phone
> > numbers for each provider on earth - that would be,
perhaps, impossible -
Well, that's exactly what is done for UMTS provider
(
http://git.gnome.org/browse/mobile-broadband-provider-info/
). So i do
not see why it couldn't be done.
<end quote>
Wouldn't this be the basis for including, say, a default
dongle installation and a number of representative providers
or appropriate links?
Doug
