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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: GPRS/3G packages galore
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:47:15
Message-Id: 49bf44f10908241547u181d3813t4ec86ed6a31d2aea@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] GPRS/3G packages galore by Grant
1 > Wow, there have just been a whole slew of GPRS/3G packages added to
2 > portage.  This is really great to see, and I can be a great
3 > contributor as far as providing network info.
4 >
5 > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/mobile-broadband-provider-info
6 > http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/22/mobile-broadband-assistant-makes-it-easy/
7 >
8 > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/modemmanager
9 > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-July/msg00276.html
10 >
11 > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/ofono?ts=2009-08-24T13:20:40Z
12 > http://mobilemanager.movilforum.com/index.php/Home
13 >
14 > I also noticed:
15 >
16 > http://mobilemanager.movilforum.com/index.php/Home
17 >
18 > Network Manager seems to be the integration platform of choice.  Does
19 > anyone know if there are rumblings about integrating any of this with
20 > wicd?  Has anyone tried any of this stuff?
21 >
22 > - Grant
23
24 Just read on IRC that integration is planned for wicd-2.0 and they
25 will likely share the same carrier database as above.
26
27 - Grant