Identifying mobile phones as modems

[Daniel Qarras]

Hi!

> Well, glad that Dan asked me if I'm "100% sure" because it made me to
> check one more time and, yes, I found at least one CA-42 compatible
> CDMA model:
> 
> http://www.nokiausa.com/A4431496
> http://www.nokia.ca/A4488178
> 
> So, this is getting interesting :) I see at least the following
> options:
> 
> - do not support cables at all, let people do the work manually -
> this would be sad as they're are hundred of millions of phones and
> probably millions of cables out there so quite a few potential users.
> 
> - mark cable to support either GSM or CDMA, let the affected
> applications to sort it out what kind of device is actually connected
> 
> - default either/or (perhaps even based on some external criteria
> like locale/timezone/whatever) but allow the user to change the
> mapping.
> 
> Alas, it seems that this is getting much more difficult than I
> originally anticipated when I posted the patch but I guess sooner or
> later someone would have came to this same situation anyway.

I think there was no concrete answer how to deal with these kinds of
devices when this issue was discussed earlier. Is there anything I, a
lowly end-user with such a hw-combo, could do to help or is this so low
prio thing that this will be handled some later date?

Thanks!




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