On Вторник 20 декабря 2011 03:21:20 Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is somebody successfully using a 3g usb modem with nixos, like: > > ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem > > > > One of the few pleasures of ubuntu was, that network manager just > > handled it and I'd like to help getting nixos to that point. > > I've mostly packaged NetworkManager for NixOS. The missing bits are: > * upstart job; should be easy to do (I'm just starting every time from > console because I don't want to do nixos-rebuild before New Year); > * knm looks for provider info in /usr. Should be patched to look in > XDG_DATA_DIRS (there is a standard KDE function to search for 'data' files; > forgotten the name); > * add package for mobile-broadband-provider-info (should be very easy). > > Unfortunately, I'm too busy till 30 December (I'd prefer to participate in > exams as a student, not as a teacher but I have no choice).
Actually this needs ModemManager, which is not yet packaged, but I have it in a half-baked state locally. -- Evgeny _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
