10-modem.fdi

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:37:14PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> Well at this point, the desktop application (nm-applet) depends on NM
> knowing about the device, which in turn depends on HAL knowing what
> device type (CDMA or GSM) the modem is.  I suppose we could have the
> applet (or something else) listen for insertion events, poke the modem,
> if it needs a PIN ask for it graphically, tell HAL to run the prober
> again, and then it would show up with the right capabilities and at
> least NM would be able to use it.  Or something like that.

We can flag it as a mobile which requires a PIN without knowing what the 
device type is, presumably?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org