On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:55 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 08:56 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote: > > On Monday 03 March 2008 19:38:23 Tambet Ingo wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Vitja Makarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > I see it in the tree but I don't see it works, correct me if i'm wrong. > > > > > > It works for GSM and CDMA. > > > > As far as I know, GSM and CDMA are instances of certain classes of cellular > > networks, but GSM and CDMA themselves are not used globally. > > > > If I 'm right in this, it would make sense to internally name this support > > something generic, like 2GCellular and 3GCellular and then the GUI can sort > > out whether it refers to it as "CDMA" in EN_us or "3G" in EN_gb or "UMTS" > > in > > de. The flipside is users doing a "CDMA wtf?" when they try to use their > > cellular card. > > Just a quick point; _nothing_ should ever use or expose the 2G/3G/4G > names anywhere to the user. Those classifications are pretty loose and > essentially meaningless. Are we going to expose EDGE cards as "2.5G" > instead of 2G? Are we going to expose CDMA2000 1x as "2.5G"? No. But > they aren't 2G or 3G either. This classification just breaks down.
As an example of the stupidity here, T-Mobile has an "Internet 4G" service that uses TD-CDMA on the air interface but is really 3G in it's speed classification, it's comparable to HSUPA+HSDPA which nobody would call 4G. The card is provided by IPWireless and is branded "4G"; a driver for it just hit the kernel too. The "G" classification scheme just doesn't work. Dan > They are all "Mobile Broadband". I purposely didn't use "cellular" > anywhere because even though that's technically what it is, that term is > only used in the US. I'm not going to use "mobile phone" anywhere > either, because everyone in the use uses "cellphone" or "cell". > > Where possible, we should display model and manufacturer strings in the > UI because people usually know they have a Nokia or an LG or a Samsung > phone. They don't care if they have a Nokia CDMA phone or a Nokia GSM > phone. It's a phone. > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
