Identifying mobile phones as modems

[Daniel Qarras]

Hi Alexander!

> I think the best that hal can do is to mark all CA-42, DKU-2, etc
> devices (detected by interface class == 2 and interface subclass ==
> 2,
> no hardcoding of interface numbers or vendor/product ids) as generic
> v.25 modems, and let the applications figure out additional command
> sets, if they need them, by either asking the user, or sending AT
> commands to the device.
> 
> Here's some discussion on DKU-2 phones which has a similar problem
> (unable to distinguish between GSM and CDMA):
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525305
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15346

Thanks a lot for your help! I've attached a patch proposal, I think it
does what you suggest. I'm bit surprised if leaving vendor/product ids
is ok but then I fully don't know the finer logic involved here.

Anyway, if the patch looks sane perhaps it could be merged then?

Thanks.




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