[maemo-developers] oFono

[From: Jeff Moe]

On Thursday 07 January 2010 10:04:56 Aki Niemi wrote:
> to, 2010-01-07 kello 13:48 +0100, ext Jeff Moe kirjoitti:
> > > You should use the isimodem driver in oFono. It is specifically made to
> > > support Nokia modems, such as the one on N900.
> > 
> > I've been told, and tried my self, and it doesn't work on the N900.
> 
> It _should_ work out of the box on the N900. In fact, I did some quick
> packaging of the 0.15 release and just pushed ofono in Fremantle
> extras-devel. So let's see...

Excellent! I can't wait to try it out. I was trying latest git (e.g. 0.15+).

> There is some jumping through hoops required to get Phonet over USB
> working that would allow you to use oFono on the desktop with N900 or
> any other (recent) Nokia phone connected via USB in PC suite mode. I've
> been meaning to write a howto for that, and I guess it's high time I
> actually go and do that. ;)

Well, that kind of sounds like what my quick & dirty mini-howto is about:
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Ofono

> >  That said, you know far more about it! Do you have a sample
> > modem.conf for N900? And other clues would be appreciated!
> 
> There's no need for modem.conf on the N900; in fact, my ofono package
> builds with atmodem and udev disabled. The isimodem driver automagically
> detects modems via netlink.

Nice.  :)

Thanks for all the info,

-Jeff