On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 11:49 +0100, Torsten Spindler wrote: > Hello, > > there seems to be a problem for some devices which modemmanager probes > over the serial line. Namely Palm devices [1] and a Smart Card reader > [2]. Is there any possibility to make the probing configurable? > > There seems to be a work around available by removing > /usr/lib/ModemManager/libmm-plugin-generic.so. This seems to prevent > modemmanager from doing the autoprobing.
If there are certain devices that are known to handle probing badly, then we can probably blacklist those. We did that for a few devices with NM 0.7.x but that did not get carried over to ModemManager. We would however need to get unique identifiers for those devices like USB vid/pid. Serial devices are harder since legacy serial ports don't really have identifying information. Be aware that PCMCIA-based cards (like the Sierra 860) will report as ttyS0 using the "serial" driver and thus aren't very distinguishable from legacy serial ports either. Needs a bit of investigation. when you get a bug like this, try getting the user to (1) stop NM and MM, (2) plug the device in, and (3) run the "lsudev" utility included in the modem-manager sources in test/ like so: sudo lsudev tty and then hit Ctrl+C and get the log into gnome bugzilla. If we get enough logs we can see if there's a good way to handle legacy serial ports. If the devices are USB, then that's quite a bit easier. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
