Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 13:27 +, Richard Hughes wrote: I pondered this a few months ago -- we need a small application that when hardware is inserted (HAL event) can query a set of xml descriptors and then prompt the user with a libnotify type bubble. Done as a session service, like g-p-m

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Richard Hughes
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:52 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 13:27 +, Richard Hughes wrote: I pondered this a few months ago -- we need a small application that when hardware is inserted (HAL event) can query a set of xml descriptors and then prompt the user with a libnotify

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 15:20 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Ahh, I was talking more about firmware like wireless card firmware, that all you have to do is bung it in /lib/firmware and the card magically works. Maybe I've missed the point with ADSL modems -- sorry. Ok so what you are proposing is

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Richard Hughes
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:56 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 15:20 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Ahh, I was talking more about firmware like wireless card firmware, that all you have to do is bung it in /lib/firmware and the card magically works. Maybe I've missed the point with

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hal will load the firmware(if it is available), but we some other problems: depending on the usb modem we need to initialize diferent services (eg: for speedtouch we need to start br2684ctl), the user has the firmware and wants do install it so the modem works (or doesn't know it is need and we

Re: SCons'ified PyGTK

2005-12-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
Qui, 2005-12-29 às 18:35 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro escreveu: Behold! A SCons'ified PyGTK is now available: http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/pygtk-2.8.3.tar.gz http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/pygtk-scons.diff It needs scons 0.96.91, instead of make. I had to invest a lot of effort and time

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 17:17 +, Luis Rodrigues wrote: 1: if the firmware is not installed show the dialog to the user if it is hal will load it Load it meaning place it on disk in the right place ? 2: setup the modem (run br2684ctl, change some options on /proc, ...) 3: need to dial

Re: Session manager status?

2005-12-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:49 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, What's the status of the new session manager code? Will this land soon for testing in 2.13? AFAIK, it's still missing some important stuff, like session management, which makes it not a good option for 2.13/2.14. Mark would know

Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

2005-12-30 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:16 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 17:17 +, Luis Rodrigues wrote: 1: if the firmware is not installed show the dialog to the user if it is hal will load it Load it meaning place it on disk in the right place ? Yes, /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware if