----- "Tambet Ingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 3:28 PM, Jon Escombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just built from the latest SVN & keen to give the UMTS support a try. > > Do you have a list of the gconf entries needed to get up and running? > > nm-applet creates the gconf entries with default values when you ask > it to connect and there's no connections suitable for umts cards. That > doesn't mean thought that things would work out of the box - NM gets > all it's information about network devices from HAL, but HAL does not > tell us if a serial device is: a modem? what type of modem? In case of > GSM cards, is it a data device or monitoring/command device? Until > someone adds all that data to HAL, I have a simple hack I use at the > moment. The attached .fdi file adds a capability 'modem' for the > serial device which is my modem. So if you want to test > NetworkManager's GSM card support, you'll need to modify this file to > contain the ids of your modem, copy it to > /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ and probably restart hal. > > For the real solution, we need to discuss where to draw the line for > what should happen in HAL and what in NM. From my (biased) point of > view, HAL should do all the work and tag all types of modem devices > with different properties. > > Tambet
Good stuff, got connected first time ;) Only issues were that it didn't set up resolv.conf, and also added three entries to the applet menu (as the card presents three ports). Thanks, Jon. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
