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Bug 593496 - [enh] blackberry support
[enh] blackberry support
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: ModemManager
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-29 16:11 UTC by Praveen Thirukonda
Modified: 2013-07-11 15:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Praveen Thirukonda 2009-08-29 16:11:51 UTC 
Allow blackberry devices to used as modems so that we can surf using their connections like one can with the several nokia devices.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2009-09-04 13:25:06 UTC 
Yup; this requires ModemManager and NM 0.8 so that we can create an MM plugin for Blackberries.  AFAIK it would require linking with something like libberry because they use custom serial protocols for things like PIN unlocks and they also don't really support the range of AT commands that most other phones do.
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-04-09 23:10:32 UTC 
Note that we now have Bluetooth DUN support which should work with a large number of blackberries.  If it doesn't, getting debug logs from ModemManager as shown here:

http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging

(in the section about Debugging 3G connections)  would be very useful.
Comment 3 Dan Williams 2013-07-11 15:09:51 UTC 
It seems quite unlikely that we'll end up writing the support to talk to old Blackberries over USB/serial at this point, so DUN is the best option here for now.