On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:05 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > apparently do use the driver CD thing to send Linux drivers and software > > to a few clients. But by and large, the driver CD is completely > > useless. > > And then every so often you need to rummage around the driver CD image to > extract the APN or other data you need to make your modem work. At which > point you end up having to recompile the kernel to get it. Very annoying > given it could be trivially done properly in user space. > > HAL probably needs the database of these devices *not* the kernel. It's udev these days; HAL is going away since it and udev pretty much can do the same thing anyway. The tool you're looking for is called usb_modeswitch, but it needs a bit of work to Just Work in a stock distro install with the user having to edit a config file. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
