10-modem.fdi

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sun Jun 1 06:46:46 PDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 14:28 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:22:27AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Should be able to do that, yes.  What would the stored PIN be keyed off
> > of though?  In some cases (USB cables) you only get the USB VID/PID of
> > the _cable_, not of the mobile.  So you can't necessarily tie a stored
> > PIN to specific device.  You also don't want to blindly try a stored PIN
> > too many times.
> 
> I'm not sure we want to blindly try a stored PIN even once, to be honest 
> - if the user plugs and unplugs their phone 3 times, we don't want to 
> trigger the PUK locking. Does AT+CGSN require a PIN first?

Remember, you want AT+GCAP though...  that's what lists the standards
that the phone supports and allows us to detect plain modems from GSM
from CDMA.

But yes, that was Marcel's point, that there are some that simply don't
respond to anything until AT+CPIN or whatever has happened.

Dan




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