Matching USB modems on serial.port

[Danny Kukawka]

On Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2009, Adrian Cox wrote:
> ----- "Danny Kukawka" <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
[...]
> > Please don't do such things. The modem.command_sets proterty should be
> > used
> > only if there are values added to the list. Don't add empty
> > properties.
>
> Can you suggest another way to hide the ports? The NetworkManager that
> ships in Ubuntu Intrepid will crash if it sees those ports as being modem
> ports. The crash is probably due to the modem probing patch that Ubuntu
> added in their version of NetworkManager, but we'd much rather put an fdi
> file on the driver CD than a fixed NetworkManager for each architecture.
>
> Even if we avoid the crash, we still have to work around the Ubuntu
> NetworkManager probing. If we don't stop it, it will create an entry in the
> network manager applet for each individual serial port, even though they
> all talk to the same radio.

That's clearly a NM bug/problem and should be fixed there. Workarounds are no 
solution, they only prevents bugs top get fixed. It's better to have a fixed 
NM for all archs then a fdi file, because you can't fix the problem for all 
existing devices out there with one fdi file. 

Danny