Re: want to add GPRS connection type

Paul Nasrat <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:53:24 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.configuration
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 12:59 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I just had a brand new Nokia 68xx and the usb cable to connect ti to my
> notebook.
> 
> I saw that connectiong it to internet via GPRS is about loading
> usbserial and setting up some ppp conf files.
> 
> I bought a book talking about it and I have some French ISPs connection
> parameters. May be we could list the GPRS connection into the connection
> type list? 
> 
> What langage should be learn for that? C? Python?
> I can have a look myself and discover, but I thinl discussion wouldn't
> be so bad. :-)

You probably want to interface to NetworkManager - see
NetworkManager-vpnc for one example. You can use hal/dbus to detect the
GPRS modem.

system-config-network is another option, but NetworkManager may more
suit a userdriven setup.

Paul

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