GSM modems supported by network-manager-0.7 - help!

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 11:57 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:56:04AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 20:48 +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> > > I am considering buying iPlus (internet access from a Polish GSM
> > > provider Polkomtel), and I have trouble predicting which GSM modem
> > > would work with network-manager-0.7 on Hardy.
> > > 
> > > I want to use network-manager and not pppd or wicd; I want
> > > GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA (HSPA might be useful in future); ExpressCard or
> > > PCMCIA is preferred, USB is acceptable.
> > > 
> > > iPlus provides a small choice of modems
> > > <http://www1.plus.pl/si/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SiPhonesListCmd?catalogId=1000000002&categoryId=1000000016&viewId=2&storeId=10001>:
> > > - Huawei E800 (ExpressCard)
> > > - ZTE MF335 (ExpressCard)
> > > - Huawei E630 (PCMCIA)
> > > - Huawei E870 (HSPA, ExpressCard)
> > > - Option Icon 225 (USB)
> > 
> > I have a 225 (thanks Option!).  It works.  I used it to add support for
> > newer Option cards to NetworkManager.  If it's busted in any way, I'll
> > fix it since I have the hardware.
> 
> I think this kind of request will probably be a frequently asked
> question in the future. Is there a way we could come up with a list of
> hardware that we know works with NM 0.7 and 2.6.27 kernel?
> 
> Most likely we won't get access to all hardware available, so I guess
> we would need to setup some kind of community feedback process.
> 
> Maybe we could have an option in NM that allows users to opt-in to
> such feedback? They could then submit results for hardware/kernel
> combinations which we could aggregate in list useful for end users.

Write some XSLT that pulls the USB and PCMCIA IDs out of 10-modem.fdi
and correlates those to a table somewhere of vendor and device names
like the pciids stuff.  10-modem.fdi is the authoritative list of
cellular devices supported by NetworkManager.  If it's not in that list,
it's not supported.

Dan