I too have the Blackberry 8830 (World Edition) and have an interest in this thread. Bob Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:11 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to figure out how to get my tethered Blackberry 8830 to work >>> as a modem with Network Manager. Sprint is my carrier and I have their >>> Linux modem setup document. It's straight forward. >>> >>> The only thing missing is that Network Manager doesn't recognize my BB >>> as a modem. >>> >>> I know I could set up kppp or gnome-ppp to make the connection, but I >>> would prefer to use Network Manager. >>> >>> Ideas on how to make this work? >>> >> I use XmBlackBerry for this purpose, but I'm on Verizon and was running >> it under F8. Haven't tried F9 or F10 with it yet. I do have F9 on my >> laptop (where I used the Blackberry as a wireless modem), but >> XmBlackBerry is still installed there. I'd have to do some checking. >> >> You most certainly will need the barry and barry-libs RPMs to have the >> device recognized by hal and such. >> > > I have the barry packages installed from the F10 repos. When I ran F9, I > used barry as well and configured it for my carrier (Sprint) using > Gnome-ppp. It then "magically" showed up in NetworkManager and just > worked. > > On F10, Gnome-ppp seems to have been pulled. Barry now sets the modem up > on /dev/pts/0 (or 1 or 2 - seems to be on the fly). Then I'm unable to > use kppp to connect. Configuring directly through NetworkManager has not > worked for me at all. > > There's a script that comes with Barry that allegedly connects up Sprint > automatically. After running it, it appears to connect, but none of my > apps seem to be able to use it. > > It seems hal-info has what it needs to recognize the sdram card as a > drive, and even put mp3s on it. But we're sitting at squat for using it > as a broadband modem. Maybe I should Bugzilla that part. Not sure if > that will help though - my other hal-info bugzilla bug for my Sierra > Wireless broadband card (AT&T USB Connect Mercury) is still sitting > unassigned despite my being asked to create it. > > If I could just figure out how to create an entry in modems.fdi > (in /etc/hal/information/). Ideas??? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
