On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 18:23 +0200, Javier Almasoft wrote: > OK, my local sample of the device is working flawlessly with my dirty > hack, so I suppose I can wait. Thanks anyway for the interest and > effort you are spending in this.
I lied and implemented support for it Sunday in ModemManager 0.4.997 (0.5-beta3) which I then tagged and uploaded. I also just mailed a patch to linux-usb@vger to fix the 10 second hardlock titled "option: add Alcatel X200 to sendsetup blacklist". > In regard to the Windows drivers supplied from the manufacturers, it's > understandable they don't bother. They expect 'always' for the driver > to be reinstalled always from the supplied one, and not to be > supported by the OS natively. So, why care? The device will be > obsolete in months from their point of view (that seems to be the > bussiness in cellphone companies, to keep you rebuying again and > again). Yeah, that's the problem. They dont' really care after the device is out the door. Dan > > 2011/6/3 Dan Williams <[email protected]> > > > I spent a bunch of time with my X200 this morning, and the > outlook is > not good. On the plus side, we can get access technology for > this > device via AT commands, which I assume the X220 also supports. > > Now the bad news. TCT in their infinite wisdom gave the X060, > X070, and > X200 the SAME FREAKING USB IDs, despite the X200 having a > completely > different command set than the X060/070. The X060s is driven > by > Longcheer, while the X200 needs the X22X plugin. > > At least when Huawei does this (like 20 of their modems are > 12d1:1001) > the modems have the same AT command set. I really want to > yell at TCT > now. > > So supporting the X200 will take a bit more time, because now > we have to > check the ATI/GMR response (since the X060 and X200 both > report the same > thing for GMI and GMM, whee!) and look at the firmware > revision response > to figure out whether Longcheer should drive the device or > not. That's > not hard, but it won't be tomorrow that the X200 is properly > supported :( > > I honestly don't know who does firmware development for > outfits like > Huawei, TCT, and others, but I'd like to yell at them for a > while. Of > course on Windows you only ever install software/drivers for > one 3G card > at a time, so you never run into this. Or at least that's > what I assume > the manufacturer thinks you should do. > > Dan > > > > > -- > Un saludo, > Javier MartÃnez > ALMASOFT, S.L. > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
