On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 10:08 -0700, Chetan Karia wrote: > Hi, > > I am an employee of Sierra wireless USA. I was testing network manager > on Ubuntu 8.10. I found that all Sierra CDMA modems worked well with > network manager except our two new products which were not detected by > Network Manager. On investigating further I discovered its just matter > of adding the Vendor ID and Product ID of our new devices to the file > "10-modem.fdi" under the directory > "/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/". Once I edit this file > and add the VID/PID's the Network Manager detects the devices and > connects to CDMA network. I wanted to know the procedure to officially > add the VID/PID's of new Sierra device to 10-modem.fdi file, so that I > do not have to edit it manually. > > Your help will be much appreciated.
Hi! Alexander has already described how to get the modem recognized. Let us know if there's any other questions you have. In the future, we're going to use modem port detection where a small program will query the modem for supports AT command sets (using ATI or AT+GCAP) when its plugged in. So updating hal-info shouldn't be necessary for NetworkManager later than 0.7.1. I have one question for you, however. Many modems (including some Sierra ones) expose more than one AT-capable serial port. On those modems, usually only one port returns unsolicited responses like CONNECT that NetworkManager needs to listen for. Is that also the case with Sierra modems that expose multiple AT-capable serial ports? If so, how do we know which of the ports provides that unsolicited response? For example, Option NV modems expose up to 4 or 5 AT-capable serial ports, but for ealier models, only usb interface 0 provides the necessary CONNECT response. On later models, the 'hso' driver queries the Option firmware for port types and exposes that information to userspace. Is there a similar mechanism for Sierra? Thanks! Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
