Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 07:08 -0700, Michael wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a Verizon broadband card and my experience has been that the >> card acts as a modem. I also use Fedora 7 and setting up the device >> in the Network applet as a modem allows NM to control the card as a >> dial-up connection. The specific card support is still required from >> the Verizon software to program the card for specific stuff (tower >> info, other programming - SPL). Although it would be nice to have >> some kind of signal strength meter... > > Unfortunately, the interfaces to get this additional data are all > proprietary vendor interfaces, with the exception of a few Sierra GSM > cards that accept AT commands on the second tty. So this is not > currently possible without licensing the SDKs of each vendor and using > non-free, binary blobs.
Sorry, but that's simply not true (to not call it FUD or BS). Almost all cards work just fine using UMTSmon (http://umtsmon.sf.net). Klaas is acquiring those cards that don't right now and then they will work, too. The only thing that is still needed is a port multiplexer for single-port cards like my novatel xu870, but there was just no pressing need for having signal strength while being connected, so i did not yet look into that :-) -- Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
