[PATCH] identify modems and mobile broadband cards

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:21 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > > As discussed in previous threads.  fdi patch to hal-info attached as
> > > it's too big for most mailing lists.  If we find things in the
> > > ETSI/UMTS/3GPP stuff that is _new_ to UMTS cards, we'll add another
> > > command set specification.  There are plenty of EDGE/GPRS cards and
> > > actual phones that don't support UMTS and therefore wouldn't have any
> > > new stuff like that.
> > 
> > Why ship it in hal-info? I'd rather you shipped the fdi files in the
> > NetworkManager tarball; that way we can avoid a lot of back and forth.
> > Thanks.
> 
> the patch from Dan was for extending the HAL specification. We haven't
> even started creating any FDI files, yet.

I actually attached tarred .fdi file (45k uncompressed) that contains
entries for everything in the option, airprime, and sierra drivers, plus
a few pantech cards and a Hayes V.92 pcmcia modem I found lying around.

Dan

> Also the UMTS/CDMA modem cards are not NetworkManager specific. A lot of
> programs could profit from them.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
> 
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