bug#35640: Make USB modems just work on Guix

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 05:24:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >>From d489f805599ea63e2e06727a3201572ee0480a60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Florian Pelz <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 20:02:00 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: network-manager-applet: Propagate packages 
> > required
> >  for USB modem setup.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (network-manager-applet): Propagate iso-codes and
> >   mobile-broadband-provider-info.
> >   (gnome-control-center): Ditto.
> 
> Would it be an option to avoid propagation by instead substituting
> references to these two things in the code of network-manager-applet and
> gnome-control-center?  WDYT?
> 

I have confirmed that the patch attached to this e-mail makes
network-manager-applet’s libnma library load its data from the store
and not the profile.  This fixes nm-connection-editor from
network-manager-applet as well as gnome-control-center which
previously required modem-broadband-provider-info and iso-codes to be
installed in the profile.

I am still working on packaging USB_ModeSwitch which some USB modems
require.

Regards,
Florian

0001-gnu-network-manager-applet-Patch-libnma-for-modem-su.patch
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