Ok thanks for the explanation Vick. So I will just wait for GobiNet and
GobiAPI to be integrated in Network-Manager. For now qcserial / wvdial
are working like a charm so it's ok for me.
The GPS capability is not a big deal for me but I'd like to have things
working on my computer (kind of geek? :-)). Anyway if there is a GPS
capability it is definitivly not enable here. The thing is I removed the
windows partition...so I cannot enable the GPS on Windows. I already
tried with VirtualBox but Gobi drivers dont want to install on a virtual
machine because It doesnt detect a Vaio Serie Z2 laptop...
Do you have any idea how I could enable the GPS on linux ?
On 11/29/2011 01:09 AM, vick wrote:
As with gobi 2000, the gps module needs to be enabled before it can be
used. I won't be surprised if gobi 3000 actually removes the GPS port if
it's not enabled. You can try and go to windows and enable gps and then
reboot into linux to see if you get another serial interface. Then the
question is whether the interface is actually active or not (if there is
any GPS data on it) . And then make sure you have the same version of
the GobiSerial code since I think there are few iterations of it.
The problem with GobiNet is that it exposes a net interface for the raw
communication but you need to use the GobiAPI and a USB device that
GobiNet creates to configure the connection and all the bits that
NetworkManager and pppd do with the serial connection via AT commands at
the moment ( like route and DNS settings, connection quality and
requirements, IPs, etc)
From what I've read, the NetworkManager devs are currently waiting on
Google to open source some of the code they wrote (for GoogleOS) that
uses GobiAPI (or a re-write of GobiAPI) in conjunction with GobiNet to
get the device running. That's supposed to happen any time now since
Qualcomm open-sourced the GobiAPI code.
I couldn't tell if GPS is included in that (Google code that is) but
there is stuff in the GobiAPI that enables and disables the GPS and if
we have a usable GobiAPI library we should be able to get the GPS going.
Not sure why yours only finds 3 Interfaces and mine finds 4...
Also, I'm sure that Vicki is correct that GobiSerial is deprecated
or maybe about to be, but I couldn't get GobiNet to work. Hopefully
the patched qcserial will work for you
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