Hi there! I am Peteris Krisjanis, and I'm doing testing and debbuging Ubuntu distro - apps, hardware, translations, etc. As very regular Linux user and practical advocate and migration specialist for 9 years, I am quite interested for getting hardware "just work". I know it is neverending story, but it shouldn't keep me and us from trying :) Anyway, I am posting my first post to this list to get more clear picture about what's happening with mobile broadband modems within Linux environment. Current situation is (as far as I understand): * We have some modeswitching stuff in kernel, but everyone would happy to see it go to userspace, which is quite understandable; * We have modem-modeswitch app in udev rules, which handles only few manufacturers. With some tweaking it can automagically work with other dongles, but it is not a right way to do it. It is also abandoned; * And finally we have usb-modeswitch app, which is independent tool to do a switching and is very widely used and and actively maintained by Josua Dietze As a user and someone of Ubuntu community, I would like to know what Linux hotplug/udev people think about usb-modeswitch direction, is it right and "blessed" way to do it? So far it seems only *working* effort to support mode switching for mobile broadband modems, which are very widely used. This answer is important, as Ubuntu devs are looking to include it by default in distro, so we can get user's mobile broadband dongles working out of box in most situations. Please respond what you think, Cheers, Peteris Krisjanis. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
