On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 14:29 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 17:22 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I think perhaps ModemManager may be misnamed. It can't handle old style > > external modems such as my V.92 Haynes modem plugged into serial ports. > > But there are situations (for example ADSL goes down) where I would need > > to bring up an Internet connection using my V.92 Haynes modem over > > dial-up ppp. Is that even possible with NetworkManager? > > Not at the moment; but it's intended to allow ModemManager to handle > these modems too. Unfortunately I get about 30x more requests for > mobile broadband stuff than for 56k dialup support... anybody is > welcome to help out with patches; it probably wouldn't even be that hard > since most of these modems don't need a ton of initialization, and then > you just dial. What's slightly hard is detecting old-school serial > modems connected to platform serial ports. USB modems should be OK.
In the next few days I'll be getting a serial to USB cable to plug my old V.92 Haynes modem into and see how I get on with that. I also have a P166 with serial port with which I can test. Might be nice to have a back-up dial-up Internet for those occasions when broadband goes down. -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
