On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:07 +0200, Antti Kaijanmäki wrote: > pe, 2008-10-24 kello 19:02 -0400, Dan Williams kirjoitti: > > Hi, > > > > I notice the Wizard in Ubuntu also doesn't filter for CDMA vs. GSM, > > which can obviously be autodetected based on probing of the HAL > > information. For a given GSM device, you shouldn't show CDMA, but for a > > given CDMA device, you shouldn't show GSM operators. I plugged my > > Sprint card into an 8.10 beta system running NM packages from 2008-10-15 > > and it just showed GSM providers, which obviously won't work for my > > card. > > The reason why the wizard is showing only GSM providers is that the > database doesn't yet contain many CDMA providers :)
The US should be mostly populated by now. > The list of operators could easily be filtered based on network type, > but libmbca API doesn't support that ATM :/ Should probably add that API then, it's pretty crucial. Dan > > It's also sometimes possible to pull out what CDMA provider the card is > > meant for by grepping the output of ATI, because the firmware strings > > will sometimes contain the provider name. Might be a future > > optimization to suggest the provider based on that, but let the user > > override if they wish. > > True, but let's see if we can get network ID's to the database. We can > use those to present smart suggestions to the users and since network id > is inquired from the phone it's pretty accurate. > > > > There's also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557819 which has > > a few more CDMA things for mbca. > > I will look into this. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
