On Nov 27, 2007 10:34 PM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 22:10 +0530, vikram b wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       I would like use svn trunk's code to setup ppp connection , lets
> > say for dial up (gprs etc).
>
> Tambet is going to land GSM/UMTS code later this week actually, he might
> reply to this anyway with more details.
>

  Thanks ! Would wait for his resp.  Just a quick question . Are we going to
have CAPI plugins for pppd in near future ?
   which is req. for the isdn dialup etc.


> > Could anybody give me where to start . i mean i couldn't see  things
> > in libnm etc.
> >
> > nm_ppp_manager_start() is a  func i could see .
> >
> > Are we planning to support dbus methods to start/manage pppd
> > connections ?
> >
> > (like in nm-vpn-manager.xml:     <method name="Connect"> )
> >
> > any plans for same methods for ppp ? or what is the alternate way to
> > do ppp connection now ?
>
> Well, it's going to be based around Connections, as the rest of NM is.
> So for mobile broadband stuff, you'd have a connection with a UMTS
> setting that says (optionally) what card the connection is tied to, what
> the APN is, then a PPP setting that specifies things like the user and
> password, and the number to dial, and possibly what custom AT commands
> the card might need.  If you look at:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfiguration
>
> You can get a better idea of the structure of connections and settings
> as implemented in NM.  There's some work to get PPP better supported,
> it's basically been waiting on the UMTS stuff since that's the most
> interesting use-case at the moment, though the PPP manager will
> hopefully support mobile broadband, Bluetooth DUN, PPPoE PPPoATM, ISDN,
> plain old dialup, and PPtP VPNs in the end.
>


>
> Dan
>
>
>
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