On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:11 +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote:
Hello *,
I'm new here and I've subscribed to this list to find a reliable answer to
two
questions.
First one: does NM 0.8 support 2G/3G preference and roaming preference?
(where
support to me means that if I install the latest NM with latest nm-applet
and ModemManager I get a GUI for selecting my preference and this gui is
supposed to work). Rumors [1] say it will provide those functionalities
when
ModemManager will be checked in, which now has already happened to my
understanding.
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/22/qualified-to-satisfy-you/
All of this is in NM, nm-applet, and MM git master. It's also been
built into Fedora 12, 13, and rawhide for at least 3 weeks or so. So
yeah, it's live.
BUT it's not in a real release yet. It's on target for the 0.8.1
release, which should happen soon-ish, since I think we've got enough
stuff in the release now that we should just cut it and move the other
stuff on the ReleaseProcess page up to 0.8.2.
Please note that not all GSM modems support the 2G/3G preference yet.
Most of the common ones (Option, Huawei, Sierra, Ericsson, and ZTE) do,
but if it's not one of those, chances are it won't work because we don't
know the AT commands for locking the mode yet.
Other rumors [2] say we have to wait for NM 0.8.1, but also that Fedora
already has most of those gadgets uprunning (despite 0.8.1 is not out yet).
NM Wiki [3] doesn't help much 'cause it says nothing about that.
1. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-
February/msg00049.html
2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/07/networkmanager-0-8-the-taste-of-a-
new-generation
3. http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ReleaseProcess
What is the real truth?
Second question (less important, because it's not the correct list to ask):
is
it possible to install a new NM version (which supports 2g/3g preference) in
Ubuntu 9.10 without upgrading the whole system?
This would probably work, since it all builds on Fedora 12 too which
came out only a few months after 9.10. So I'd imagine the build
requirements are all satisfied by 9.10. I'm pretty sure 9.04 won't
work, since the version of udev/gudev there is unlikely to be new
enough.
Dan
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