http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503397
User nice@titanic.nyme.hu added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503397#c6
--- Comment #6 from Tamás Németh
Next issue: Connection is very rarely successful in Linux, works often (always?) in Windows.
Not always, but in ~95% of the attempts, while it works in ~10 for Linux%.
So yes, this does sound a lot like a problem due to poor reception.
Maybe, but Windows doesn't need that long time between registration and conection. In the case of windows the registration and connection phases are separated more clearly. (After plugging in the stick I have to type in my PIN code which makes that client software to registrate but not connect, and I have to connect separately. However, even when I attempt to connect almost immediately after the registration, the connection will succeed virtually always, and I don't even have to wait! The connection finishes in a few seconds!)
ModemManager waits for one minute to finish registration + activating connection, so it sounds like it's not enough for you. There's nothing ModemManager can do more if it tells the modem to register (and then connect) to make it do it faster.
See above. I suspect that the windows client software may use a different method to handle the stick, since it's so much faster and more reliable. Earlier, under Linux I used a shell script (made by the author of the hso driver) to handle my 3G stick, but that was almost as unreliable as ModemManager. However, later I tried th HSOConnect utility (also made by the author of the hso driver), which proved to be approximately as fast and reliable as the windows client, but it's not integrated with NetworkManager and doesn't run on openSUSE 11.1 (because it needs python 2.5, at least it's last version seen by me). you should take a allok at HSOConnect, in order to get some ideas, or try my windows client on a windows machine (I can extract it from my USB stcik, and send to you). To make activation faster, we could (and should) try
to implement what you're already trying to use, that is, to get the modem registered before the start of connection. I have been wanting to write that, but it will take significant amount of time, and we simply don't have resources for that right now.
Networkmanager also has to be changed, right? Sorry, I can't help since I'm not a programmer, but it was one of my advices too. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.