On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 11:16 +0100, Torsten Spindler wrote: > Hello, > > Alex and I have submitted a patch for the blacklisting in ModemManager > in this bug report: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608022 > > If you have some time, can you please let us know if it can be included. > Is there anything else we can do to move this forward?
Not until I look at it; will get there soon. Thanks! Dan > Regards, > Torsten > > > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 14:42 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > 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
