On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:28 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > I can't seem to find it in the GUI or in the documentation. > > > > > > Can NetworkManager be configured to only connect to home networks? Say I > > > am on Vodafone and get free data usage, but then move to an area with > > > poor signal for Vodafone, can I prevent switching to T-Mobile which > > > costs me money? > > > > > > If yes, can this be determined automatically, or is this done with a > > > string match? > > > > For cards where we actually know the commands for controlling roaming, > > yes we can do this, otherwise NM will need to send the specific MCC/MNC > > of your operator to the modem, which has its own problems. This is > > definitely going to be fixed in the near future, but there's no facility > > for doing so now other than entering the MCC/MNC of your operator into > > teh Network entry in the connection editor. > > what do you mean by this. It makes no sense. Which card can be > controlled to roam or not via its firmware. Normally this is all host > stack stuff.
Yeah, seems that's mostly CDMA cards right now. My bad. > You get the current MCC/MNC from the network notifications and your home > network is part of the IMSI. Only trick part with the IMSI is that you > have to check first if the MNC is two or three digits long. That value > is stored somewhere in the SIM card. Does that mean talking directly to the SIM to find out the MNC length? There's boatloads of networks with 3-digit MNC (americas and India mostly) so it would completely suck if you couldn't tell just from the MNC. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
