Re: [Barry-devel] Barry and Network-Manager

[Darren A. <da...@gm...>]

Rick,

How did you accomplish this, is there a patch available?

Thanks!


On 1/25/09, Rick Scott <rw...@al...> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 11:52 -0800, Chris Maresca wrote:
>> I tried hacking network manager's config to recognize barry and pppob,
>> but it never really worked.   In the end, I just created an icon linked
>> to the a script that killed NM and started barry.    Clicking it again
>> would shutdown barry and startup NM.
>>
>> I think the GSM/CDMA features of NM are really designed for 3G pc cards,
>> not usb tethered phones-as-modems....   I guess the real answer would be
>> a kernel driver that made the phone-as-modem look like a network
>> device....  Wasn't someone working on this?
>
> phone-as-modem look like a modem, suitable for pppd .... Done. At least
> me and 2 other people have been using it for a few weeks. It also
> exposes the desktop, ftp file system, and the javaloader, interfaces as
> devices.
>
>
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> Darren Albers wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Chris Frey <cd...@fo...>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:13:33PM -0500, Darren Albers wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I am considering replacing my Blackberry plus Aircard with just a
>> >>> tethering plan.   I see that Barry allows the use of a Blackberry
>> >>> tethered using a chat script but does it permit the device to be
>> >>> detected by Network Manager as a GSM/CDMA modem?
>> >>>
>> >> Hi Darren, and welcome to Barry!
>> >>
>> >> There is nothing special in Barry to make the modem easy to use via any
>> >> GUI.
>> >> All it installs is the library, pppob (the command line tunnel to the
>> >> modem), and some ppp options files and chatscripts under /etc/ppp and
>> >> /etc/chatscripts, if you are using binary packages.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> If it just presents itself as a serial port it may just need a .fdi so
>> >>> that it can be recognized.   If that is all it takes I may be able to
>> >>> help with that.
>> >>>
>> >> That would be great.  Please send any patches to the list, and keep us
>> >> posted.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> I also see some back and forth on the Blackberry Bold, if I use the
>> >>> version via CVS does the bold work properly?
>> >>>
>> >> As you are probably seeing on the list, some features, like password
>> >> support
>> >> are a work in progress.  Best way to find out for yourself is to try.
>> >>
>> >> The latest CVS is fairly stable for a devel tree, and does have fixes
>> >> that are
>> >> not in 0.14.
>> >>
>> >> - Chris
>> >>
>> >
>> > I don't think this is going to work with NetworkManager as it is now.
>> >  Is there any way to call pppob directly and have it create a standard
>> > serial type interface?
>> >
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