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Wader is a 3G daemon accessible via DBus, written in Python and released under the GPLv2. Wader runs on Linux and OSX.

Wader's target audience are developers. If you would like your application to interact with a UMTS device, such as a mobile data card or a mobile phone, then stop searching! Features:

* Built upon modern technologies such as dbus and udev
* Service invoked via DBus
* A single process handles n devices
* Dialup via NM 0.8/0.9 or Wvdial/NDIS dialup on systems with an older NM
* Extensible AT Engine
* Pluggable support for devices: Adding support for a new device is
usually a matter of copying an skeleton, changing the device IDs and
dropping the plugin in /usr/share/wader-core/plugins
* A python shell to interact with the device in runtime

History

Wader is a fork of the core of Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux[0]

Some of its parts have been completely rewritten and the most juicy bits have been exported over DBus to allow other applications of the Linux desktop to use Wader. Wader is the first project (apart from ModemManager itself) that implements ModemManager's API[1]. This means that NetworkManager 0.8 / 0.9 will be able to use wader-core to perform operations on devices.

Supported devices See the SUPPORTED_DEVICES file to see which devices we currently know how to handle well

Project Source Repository (patches most welcome): https://github.com/andrewbird/wader

This software should work (in theory) with any device that follows the relevant GSM and 3G specs. Nonetheless, every device is different and it may not work in an untested device. Try it at your own risk. If you speak Python and feel adventurous you could get involved by supporting a new device/distro.

LICENSE

Wader is distributed under the GPLv2. See the LICENSE file for the gory details.

FAQ

0 .- Wader fails horribly with my OS

Wader has been tested on the following distros: - Ubuntu 10.04 .. 12.04 - Mint 11 - Fedora 15

You can find instructions of how to add a new OS/Distro in the doc.

1 .- Wader fails horribly with my device

Chances are that your device is a cousin of one of our supported devices. Adding support for a new device is relatively easy (as long as it behaves), you can find instructions of how to add a new device in the doc.

[0] https://forge.vodafonebetavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ [1] http://trac.warp.es/wader/wiki/WhatsModemManager