Hello, pe, 2008-04-11 kello 09:13 +0200, Stefan Seyfried kirjoitti: > 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.
Whoa! This is fantastic! I've been interested in mobile broadband under GNU/Linux for three years now and this is the first time I hear about UMTSmon. Well, it's never too late to find out something new ;-) > 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 :-) > It seems to me (after looking at the screen shots:) that NetworkManager and UMSTmon could definitely have a some sort of future together. -- Antti _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
