Hi All, I know this belongs to Network Manager, however I thought I'll generate some buzz here before I put it in there.
Issue : ------------ BSNL EVDO modem was not detected by NetworkManager on Ubuntu Intrepid ( 8.10 ) though its automatically recognized by hal. Here's what I did. 1. hal-device | less Searched for Qual [ From what's been posted on net, its a Qualcomm device ]. Three entries listed - http://pastebin.com/f718a05cb 2. There's nothing of great use to me other than the following lines - a. Its a CDMA device ( i should've searched for CDMA !! ) b. the driver is moto-modem Funnily the /dev/ttyUSB0 is missing in the three listings. 3. I searched for CDMA this time... tada ! Here's what listed - http://pastebin.com/f70d1f630 4. Well what to do now ? I went ahead and sourced the code from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk Loaded into cscope and searched for the string cdma and here's what -- f nm-hal-manager.c 320 type_cdma = TRUE; opening it up found it was a function that identifies a cdma device by various means, mainly by listing the capabilities variable from hal object. Here in BSNL EVDO / moto-modem case its sad since the hal listing show that, capabilities don't list cdma , as its capability at all !!! [snippet] capabilities = libhal_device_get_property_strlist (priv->hal_ctx, udi, "modem.command_sets", NULL); /* 'capabilites' may be NULL */ for (iter = capabilities; iter && *iter; iter++) { if (!strcmp (*iter, "GSM-07.07")) { type_gsm = TRUE; break; } if (!strcmp (*iter, "IS-707-A")) { type_cdma = TRUE; break; } } g_strfreev (capabilities); /* Compatiblity with the pre-specification bits */ if (!type_gsm && !type_cdma) { capabilities = libhal_device_get_property_strlist (priv->hal_ctx, udi, "info.capabilities", NULL); for (iter = capabilities; *iter; iter++) { if (!strcmp (*iter, "gsm")) { type_gsm = TRUE; break; } if (!strcmp (*iter, "cdma")) { type_cdma = TRUE; break; } } g_strfreev (capabilities); } [/snippet ] Now my surmise - adding a check condition for bsnl evdo modem based on the hal listing will do the trick. NM's ppp infrastructure will then use the pppd to bring it up. The question - which string from the hal listing will make most sense ? If anyone familiar with D-Bus , Hal programming, NetworkManager can they step in and explain if the line of reasoning is fine. Others are free to pitch in too !! regards, C P.S : Sorry for the badly formatted post -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
