On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:11 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to get my tethered Blackberry 8830 to work > > as a modem with Network Manager. Sprint is my carrier and I have their > > Linux modem setup document. It's straight forward. > > > > The only thing missing is that Network Manager doesn't recognize my BB > > as a modem. > > > > I know I could set up kppp or gnome-ppp to make the connection, but I > > would prefer to use Network Manager. > > > > Ideas on how to make this work? > > I use XmBlackBerry for this purpose, but I'm on Verizon and was running > it under F8. Haven't tried F9 or F10 with it yet. I do have F9 on my > laptop (where I used the Blackberry as a wireless modem), but > XmBlackBerry is still installed there. I'd have to do some checking. > > You most certainly will need the barry and barry-libs RPMs to have the > device recognized by hal and such. I have the barry packages installed from the F10 repos. When I ran F9, I used barry as well and configured it for my carrier (Sprint) using Gnome-ppp. It then "magically" showed up in NetworkManager and just worked. On F10, Gnome-ppp seems to have been pulled. Barry now sets the modem up on /dev/pts/0 (or 1 or 2 - seems to be on the fly). Then I'm unable to use kppp to connect. Configuring directly through NetworkManager has not worked for me at all. There's a script that comes with Barry that allegedly connects up Sprint automatically. After running it, it appears to connect, but none of my apps seem to be able to use it. It seems hal-info has what it needs to recognize the sdram card as a drive, and even put mp3s on it. But we're sitting at squat for using it as a broadband modem. Maybe I should Bugzilla that part. Not sure if that will help though - my other hal-info bugzilla bug for my Sierra Wireless broadband card (AT&T USB Connect Mercury) is still sitting unassigned despite my being asked to create it. If I could just figure out how to create an entry in modems.fdi (in /etc/hal/information/). Ideas??? Cheers, Chris -- Christopher A. Williams <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
