Ian Jackson writes:
> But I should be able to use the same laptop to (1) control my machine
> tools or talk to my rpi or whatever (2) go online with a usb mobile
> modem when I'm out of the house. Possibly even simultaneously.
That requires fixing the package instead of just getting it out of t
Keith Packard writes ("Re: Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing
with serial ports"):
> Yeah, I was just thinking that it would be easier to stop installing
> support for modems by default than to actually fix modemmanager to
> behave itself. It's certainly how I work -- apt remove mo
Ian Jackson writes:
> Also, AIUI modemmanager contains code to do things with the new-style
> MBIM dongles (which can also be done with the cli tools in
> mbim-utils). But I definitely wouldn't suggest disabling its ability
> to work with AT-command modems, as they are still being sold.[1]
Yeah
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:13:50PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes:
>
> (speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member)
>
> > I'm afraid don't really want to do the work of writing a better UI.
> > But I have provided a simple patch which at least makes the behaviour
> > safe.
>
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing
with serial ports"):
> It's not useless. At least not when using UMTS via USB dongles which I
> would guess more people use than ham radio. (Some of these USB dongles
> also emulate network cards and provide a DHCP serv
"Keith Packard" writes:
> Ian Jackson writes:
>
> (speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member)
>
>> I'm afraid don't really want to do the work of writing a better UI.
>> But I have provided a simple patch which at least makes the behaviour
>> safe.
>
> Would it be sufficient to simply stop ins
Ian Jackson writes:
(speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member)
> I'm afraid don't really want to do the work of writing a better UI.
> But I have provided a simple patch which at least makes the behaviour
> safe.
Would it be sufficient to simply stop installing this largely-useless
package
Package: tech-ctte
Control: block 683839 by -1
modemmanager is a program for handling modems, particularly
usb-connected mobile-telephony modems (aka "3G/4G sticks" etc.)
Many such modems present as USB serial devices, eg ttyACM or ttyUSB.
Consequently, modemmanager has the ability to open serial
Processing control commands:
> block 683839 by -1
Bug #683839 [modemmanager] modemmanager fiddles with ttyUSB devices without
asking first
683839 was not blocked by any bugs.
683839 was not blocking any bugs.
Added blocking bug(s) of 683839: 877024
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683839: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug
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