On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 06:58 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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; Yes, usb_modeswitch should be used instead. The only piece of modem-modeswitch which is not available in usb_modeswitch already is for the MobileAction phone cables. But not too many people have those (besides me). > > * 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. As far as I'm concerned, usb_modeswitch is currently the best way to accomplish this task. I believe that the usb_modeswitch developers have addressed all my concerns with out-of-the-box support via udev rules. It makes sense to do all this in one place, and usb_modeswitch is the best place to do that right now. 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
