[Discuss] 3g support

[Érico Porto]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Alexander List <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On Monday, May 07, 2012 08:12 PM, Érico Porto wrote:
>
> didn't quite catched it.. is it an open source phone or a base station?
>
> It's a middleware between different telephony/3G hardware and the
> application layer.
>
> Different vendor implementations are quite different hardware wise and a
> PITA to support, this projects seems to take away this pain point.
>
> Though the 3GPP standards describe to some extent how stuff should work,
> you'll find subtle but evil differences. Some devices require you to load
> binary firmware, others require usb_modeswitch with some specific
> model-specific tweaks, others just come up as a serial device (ttyUSBx) as
> it should be... you want to abstract these differences away and only provide
> *one* layer for placing phone calls, SMS, the audio interface, setting up an
> Internet connection, etc...
>
> That's how I understand oFono. For more questions you might want to talk to
> the developers or RTFM on http://ofono.org/
>
> ;)
>
> Alex

Thanks Alexander!! I will look into oFono details later today, it
might be a solution to one of the problems I'm facing.