Dialer Issues

[Alan Cox]

> * It's not possible to retrieve the current connection status (e.g. 
> whether the phone is registered with a network)

You can peer in the log file in /tmp. The phone I've got won't actually
believe any SIM card I've fed to it so I don't know if that bit actually
works at all anyway

> * There appears to be problems getting the gsm chip to reliably register 
> with the network (i.e. no response even using libgsm-tool)

Ditto

> I've also found that gsmd occasionally crashes. I believe this is the 
> log from the latest crash I had:

Yes - it corrupts memory. You can crash it immediately as well by asking
for a list of messages on the sim