| | 1 | = Frequently Asked Questions = |
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| | 3 | * Who develops Wader? |
| | 4 | Warp Networks developed "Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux" from late 2006 to early 2008. |
| | 5 | As Warp wanted to experiment with a deeper integration with the Linux desktop, we forked it on February 2008. Wader attracted "The Open Learning Centre", an open source consultancy that orchestrated Wader's inclusion in Elonex Ltd netbooks, a British OEM that was looking for a solution to provide dialup capabilities to their Linux 100 pounds laptop. |
| | 6 | Elonex sponsored the development of the 0.1 and 0.2.X releases. After that, Warp Networks has sponsored the development of the 0.3.X series. |
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| | 8 | * Why Wader? |
| | 9 | After forking Wader from VMC, as explained above, we faced one of the most difficult tasks in an open source project: come up with a name that is both cool and related to the application domain. After discarding many names that were either taken, or were controversial, we settled on Wader. A Wader, according to wikipedia, belongs to a group of long-legged birds such as Storks or Herons. The verb to wade, also means "to walk through any substance that offers resistance", something that this project knows a lot about (going forward through tough times). |
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| | 11 | * Will it support my device? |
| | 12 | Chances are that it will. Wader supports more than 30 devices and most of them are being sold in most EMEA shops nowadays. You can see the list of [http://trac.warp.es/wader/wiki/SupportedDevices supported devices]. |
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| | 14 | * What should I do if my device is not supported? |
| | 15 | If your device family is supported (i.e. Huawei, Option, Novatel, etc.), then it will probably be a matter of copying an existing plugin and just changing the product id. If your device family is a completely new one, then it will require a bit more of work. Don't panic, writing a plugin for Wader is really easy thanks to Python's clean syntax. Either way, check out the devel guide and read how to add support for a device. |
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| | 17 | * What should I do if my OS/distro is not supported? |
| | 18 | Adding support for a new distro is ultra easy as explained in the devel guide. It will be a matter of copying a plugin and changing a couple of methods. Adding support for a new OS is a completely different story though, as it requires writing a HardwareManager and wrapping a dialer. Feel free to contact the developers in the -devel mail list and ask for help there. |
