Bug#432310: ITP: umtsmon -- Use it to control UMTS/GPRS cards in notebooks
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:18 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> sorry for the huge delay, I somewhow forgot about umtsmon :(
>
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:15:25 +0200 Andreas Weller wrote:
>
> > I tried to find a sponsor for it but there was no reaction. So I conclude there's no interest from the debian community.
> > Either as compiling on a debian system is no big problem or none of the developers owns an UMTS card for trial and error I think there's no demand for it...
>
> I know delvelopers who own UMTS cards (even the mighty ftpmasters
> do ;) ) so I think there should be interest (even if it's Qt software).
> Would you like to share you packaging with me? Sam's version at mentors
> [1] uses cdbs, which I dislike :)
>
> If I can get a nice packaging, and Sam and you do not forbid me to take
> over the ITPs I'd like to try umtsmon into Debian - you two are welcome
> to co-maintain it of course :)
I don't mind--I only knocked together a package for a friend anyway; I
don't actually have a UMTS modem myself.
One enhancement that I was unable to get working is the ability to
launch pppd as root, but keep the rest of the program running as the
current user. The only reason the whole thing is run as root at the
moment is to satisfy pppd's (outdated?) requirement that, if pppd is not
run as root, the remote end of the connection must authenticate itself
to pppd. Anyway, expect a bug report about this once the package appears
in Debian. :)
>
> Regards
> Evgeni
>
> [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/umtsmon/
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Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
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