OK, so I will try to shed some light to this. Please, correct me if I'm wrong :-)
It has been suggested that every serial device exposed by a certain driver would have "modem" capability set. This can't be done because every exposed serial device can't be used to establish an Internet connection and "modem" is indeed supposed to tell NM and other programs which one of multiple available serial devices can be used to establish a connection. The other serial devices might be used for SMS or some proprietary functions. That's why the modem capability is set individually. However Ubuntu will not lag behind because hal-info is an information package and thus it can be updated safely, easily and fast even on distributions under feature freeze. And multiple devices from different vendors ship with common modem components and thus the number of different modem vendor_id/product_id out in the wild is relatively small. Just like with ethernet cards; you have dozens or even hundreds of different retailers, vendors and brands, but still they all use the same chips from realtek :-) -- MASTER Network Manager should probe for GSM and CDMA command sets. It doesnt detect 3g modems with serial capability only in hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
