Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports
"Keith Packard" writes:
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> (speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member)
>
>> I'm afraid don't really want to do the work of writing a better UI.
>> But I have provided a simple patch which at least makes the behaviour
>> safe.
>
> Would it be sufficient to simply stop installing this largely-useless
> package at this point? In what environments do users typically have
> modems which work with AT-style commands?
It's not useless. At least not when using UMTS via USB dongles which I
would guess more people use than ham radio. (Some of these USB dongles
also emulate network cards and provide a DHCP server instead IIRC.)
Ansgar
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