Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 217049
generic GPRS configuration for providerdb
Last modified: 2008-04-03 17:51:23 EDT
Most modern mobile phones provide a modem service that allows connecting computers over GPRS. For that you need to dial a magic number *99#, login/password can be anything. I think it would be useful to have a corresponding entry in providerdb. I tested it with my Nokia 6680 phone and it works: [Begin] [Country] GPRS connection [Flag] ppp [City] GPRS connection [Name] Generic_GPRS_connection [Type] modem [Phone] *99# [Auth] +pap -chap [Ipsetup] dynamic [User] gprs [Pass] gprs [End]
A year later, and no one seems to care. This is somewhat less relevant now as NetworkManager is likely to gain dialup functionality shortly, but still...
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Oh yeah, I can absolutely reproduce it in current rawhilde. But I'd like to talk to a real human, not robots.
real human here :) NetworkManager has gained mobile broadband support in the meantime, as mentioned in comment #1 - so is this relevant anymore?
Looks like it isn't relevant anymore, here's more information: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManager-MobileBroadband
yep, that's in F9, I've tested it myself :). More coming for F10 including signal strength meter... I'll close this then...