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<B>doug</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 5 13:00:47 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 04/10/10 16:10, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 11:44 +0100, doug a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Can I put in a plea on behalf of users who can't even use a
</I>>><i> telephone hook-up because of the appalling phone connection,
</I>>><i> e.g. in a rural area through Telecom Italia, and are obliged
</I>>><i> to depend on a 'dongle'?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I found an installation procedure for my dongle freely
</I>>><i> available on the internet; it's not proprietary. In fact the
</I>>><i> Windows installation disk that comes with the dongle itself
</I>>><i> uses it. AFAICT it's the details of the dialer defaults, in
</I>>><i> particular the init strings, that would have to be sorted
</I>>><i> out for different broadband providers.
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</I>><i> If you have information to share, you should fill a bug report.
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I'm not clear where I could file a bug report.
I can certainly set out what worked for me with Mandriva
2009.1 for a particular provider. It didn't seem especially
complicated; the main problem was tracking down the relevant
information in the first place.
So where would I send it?
><i> Developers cannot really track down every provider on the planet.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> No, i must confess that I didn't use a modem since a long time ( the
</I>><i> only one I used is the one of my mobile phone, and I used wvdial (not
</I>><i> user friendly) and network-manager ( not sure it can work with non 3g
</I>><i> modem )), so I cannot really tell where to look for filling a bug
</I>><i> report.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But I think you are right and that's important to make sure that it work
</I>><i> fine.
</I>
<quote from later in this thread>...............................
> > Of course I'm not suggesting that we collect the dial
settings and phone
> > numbers for each provider on earth - that would be,
perhaps, impossible -
Well, that's exactly what is done for UMTS provider
(
<A HREF="http://git.gnome.org/browse/mobile-broadband-provider-info/">http://git.gnome.org/browse/mobile-broadband-provider-info/</A>
). So i do
not see why it couldn't be done.
<end quote>
Wouldn't this be the basis for including, say, a default
dongle installation and a number of representative providers
or appropriate links?
Doug
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