2009/11/20 Dan Williams <[email protected]>
>
>
> On that note Pablo, would you mind if I added an "Enabled" (type bool)
> property to the org.freedesktop.ModemManager.Modem interface to indicate
> the current enablement state?
>

Not at all, it is required indeed!


>
> The reason I want to do this is because in the multi-modem-user case
> where NM should not be disabling the device, we still need a mechanism
> to allow users to do that to save power or whatever if their laptop does
> not support rfkill of the device.  For NetworkManager, I'd put a "Enable
> Mobile Broadband" checkbox into the right-click menu of nm-applet, just
> like the Enable Wireless checkbox is there.  This checkbox would reflect
> the state of each modem's Enabled property.  If the user unchecked the
> box, the applet would direct NetworkManager to disable all 3G devices
> using Enable(false), while simply choosing Disconnect in the menu would
> direct NM to call Disconnect() as we've previously discussed.
>
> Dan
>
>
>


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