Re: ANNOUNCE: libmbca and mobile-broadband-provider-info
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 03:34 -0700, Daniel Qarras wrote: > Hi Antti, > > > What is libmbca > > === > > libmbca provides Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant which is a > > GObject and GtkAssistant based utility that splits the configuration of > > a new mobile broadband connection into small easy steps. In the simplest > > form libmbca offers an frontend for mobile-broadband-provider-info. > > for my edification could you please describe a bit more use case scenarios > when this kind of configuring is precisely needed? Sorry if I sound ignorant > but currently with NM things are working for me simply so easily that it's > hard to imagine how to make things better (at least in this single use case > of mine): > > 1. I'll take my mobile phone and connect it to my laptop with a serial/usb > cable (I don't have any Bt devices) > 2. NM shows GSM connection as one alternative that I can use with zero > configuration just by clicking it Providers use different APNs for different billing and features. Some have a "WAP" APN that allows limited access to web sites and features and additional APNs for those that have paid for full internet access. Sometimes you can get wrongly billed if you use the wrong APN, or your stuff just won't work if you use the wrong APN. GSM does require a bit more configuration than CDMA at least. While it may work seamlessly for many users, it's not going to work seamlessly for lots of uses when we actually start supporting mobile phones, because phones are quite a bit more diverse (and quirky) than mobile broadband cards. > To achieve this the cable must be registered obviously in hal-info and when > selecting "GSM" from NM it uses the subscription that I have in SIM attached > to my phone. Right, NM will use the default. But often that default is not actually the one you need to use. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. > For some cables that support both GSM/CDMA the detection is still being > worked on hal/NM (last time I checked, but probably coming anyway) and I'm > not sure how could I use any other subscription that is not hardwired into my > SIM. You can tell the phone to do whatever you want the phone to do, it doesn't really matter what's stored in the SIM or not. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: ANNOUNCE: libmbca and mobile-broadband-provider-info
Hi Antti, > What is libmbca > === > libmbca provides Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant which is a > GObject and GtkAssistant based utility that splits the configuration of > a new mobile broadband connection into small easy steps. In the simplest > form libmbca offers an frontend for mobile-broadband-provider-info. for my edification could you please describe a bit more use case scenarios when this kind of configuring is precisely needed? Sorry if I sound ignorant but currently with NM things are working for me simply so easily that it's hard to imagine how to make things better (at least in this single use case of mine): 1. I'll take my mobile phone and connect it to my laptop with a serial/usb cable (I don't have any Bt devices) 2. NM shows GSM connection as one alternative that I can use with zero configuration just by clicking it To achieve this the cable must be registered obviously in hal-info and when selecting "GSM" from NM it uses the subscription that I have in SIM attached to my phone. For some cables that support both GSM/CDMA the detection is still being worked on hal/NM (last time I checked, but probably coming anyway) and I'm not sure how could I use any other subscription that is not hardwired into my SIM. Thanks. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
ANNOUNCE: libmbca and mobile-broadband-provider-info
Hello, I'm proud to announce the first releases of libmbca and mobile-broadband-provider-info. Releases are available from GNOME SVN. libmbca 0.0.1: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libmbca/tags/ mobile-broadband-provider-info 20080814: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/mobile-broadband-provider-info/tags/ What is mobile-broadband-provider-info === The module contains mobile broadband settings for different service providers in different countries. The package contains only informational files so it's safe for distributions to grab updates even during feature freeze and maintenance stages. Service provider specific information is stored in a XML file. XML is not the most optimized format for a database, but it's easy to read, understand and edit. The database is released under Creative Commons Public Domain (CC-PD). for more info, see: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ServiceProviders What is libmbca === libmbca provides Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant which is a GObject and GtkAssistant based utility that splits the configuration of a new mobile broadband connection into small easy steps. In the simplest form libmbca offers an frontend for mobile-broadband-provider-info. libmbca is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. More information These modules are resulting from Kesäkoodi (Summercode Finland) project Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant for NetworkManager. For more information, see: http://www.coss.fi/kesakoodi http://www.kaijanmaki.net/blog http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband signature.asc Description: Digitaalisesti allekirjoitettu viestin osa ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
