Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> (Dropping -devel)
>
> Hi Reinhard,
>
> Le mardi, 28 août 2012 12.18:31, Reinhard Tartler a écrit :
>> Package: modemmanager
>> Version: 0.5.2.0-1
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>> > Am 18.10.2011 21:16, schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
>> >>
>> >> modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it.
>> >
>> > The problem then is, that users get failures which are extremely hard to
>> > debug. The hardware simply won't work for them and we don't have a good
>> > way to detect such cases and forward a error message to the user session
>> > asking them to install usb-modeswitch.
>>
>> If that is the problem, then the current implementation seems more
>> like a workaround than a fix for this.
>
> In that case, what would be the fix?
I'd suggest to signal the situation properly to the user. This would
make the situation less hard to identify.
Ideally, the user is presented some dialog box that instructs him to
install the missing usb-modeswitch pacakge if necessary when he plugs
in his 3g dongle.
>> Moreover, users who
>> choose to not remove modem manager will also fall into this
>> hard-to-debug situation that you have described above.
>
> I don't understand this assertion. The problem (the hard-to-debug situations)
> arises when users have a) a 3G dongle, b) network-manager, c) modemmanager but
> d) not usb-modeswitch. In that case, most 3G dongle never ever appear to the
> user as "modems", only as unwriteable USB Mass Storage. If, as user, you never
> heard of the modeswitching problem, then you have no chance to realize you
> need to go manually hunt the suggests of the recommends of network-manager.
>
> This problem is _solved_ by the fact that modemmanager Recommends usb-
> modeswitch and thereby avoids the above situation by having usb-modeswitch
> transform these useless USB Mass Storage devices into proper modems.
So there is absolutely no chance to distinguish such a 3g dongle from
a regular mass-storage stick without the usb-modeswitch package?
> IMHO, this bug should be either closed or marked +wontfix .
Since this seems a somewhat recurring issue on debian-devel, +wontfix
seems more appropriate to me, but of course YMMV.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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