10-modem.fdi

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 01:35 +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> 2008/5/30 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
> > Yeah, though we do now have reports of cards/phones that don't respond
> > to anything until given a PIN.  Not just from Marcel either.  In that
> > case, there's nothing the prober can do...
> 
> Can you give a link to such reports? I'd like to know particular
> models, especially of the phones.

See the thread "[PATCH] Delay full modem initialization until SIM is
unlocked" on the NetworkManager list.  I believe that card will only
work if the modem has been statically tagged; it probably won't probe
correctly until the PIN has been sent.

Dan

> How about a popup window that says "The card/phone won't respond;
> please enter a PIN and press OK"? I'm not sure how this would work;
> all of the phones I came across (a LOT of various Nokia's) don't
> require anything like that and should work fine with the prober.
>