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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:29:53 -0700

> because they are not NIC cards. They just use Ethernet emulation. And
> they also require a management interface to setup APN and activate them
> first.
> 
> It is important that we tell userspace about the type of a network
> interface. We do the same for WiMAX and WiFi btw.

I completely agree with Marcel on this, please fix the device
type.