On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:40 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Chris Frey <cdf...@foursquare.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:27:06AM -0500, Rick Scott wrote: > >> I suspect the problem comes down to the fact that you never know what > >> pty you are going to get. A kernel module would get rid of this problem. > > > > That could be. But when tethering over a Blackberry is as simple > > as 'pppd call provider' from the command line, a GUI that makes it > > even harder to use seems broken in my estimation. > > > > But I guess I'm a little hard-headed like that. There's got to be a way! > > :-) > > > > I'd like to see both pppob and your kernel module working for this. > > Have you gotten kernel+modem+NetworkManager working? > > > > - Chris > > > > > > The reason for the way Network Manager does it now is so that > everything is autodetected. The device is inserted, udev and HAL > make the device available to NetworkManager and tell it the serial > port to talk to. This way the user doesn't have to do anything, the > device just works. I did post on the NM Mailing list to see if Dan > or anyone know of a way to make it work but I don't think there is at > this time (The new Modem Manager being written for .8 might be able to > handle this). > > What Rich wrote looks to be the best option in the near-term, I just > need to get XLT to build or to build the Kernel module without the > GUI.
Just cd to the kernel directory and type make. > > Is it possible to run pppob so that it exports the serial interface > rather than over stdin/stdout? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
