On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. CC'ing Dan Williams (NetworkManager) since he did a lot of work in this area.. -- Dan -- 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
