On 29/03/12 12:55, Aleksander Morgado wrote: > Hey, > >> >> tried again to setup a iridium connection but now i get a lot of "Not >> getting signal quality, not registered yet" messages and the connection >> doesn't seem to work at the beginning. after some tries (i think 3x), >> the connection worked. here are the logs: >> >> Are there any problems with this message? and why does the connection >> doesn't work at the beginning? i changed nothing in the setup (anetnna >> position, MM restart,...). >> > > There's no big issue with that message, it just says that until being > registered you're not able to get signal quality. The "004" in the > "+CREG:002,004" reply below actually means unknown registration status.
ok. > > The connection doesn't work right away because possibly you don't have a > satellite in direct LOS. Specially if you only see part of the sky, > you'll get either no connection or bad connection. Iridium satellites > are low-earth-orbiting, so they move quite fast w.r.t ground, and > handoff between satellites may cause that you lose the connection if the > new satellite coming to give you coverage is blocked by e.g. a wall or a > building. yes. that could be the problem. we have only less than half of the sky available. Thanks! Tom _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
