Bug 237679

Summary:	No modem displayed on knetworkmanager/KDE3.5.5
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Stefan Zosel <stefan.zosel>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Timo Hoenig <thoenig>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Stefan Zosel 2007-01-23 09:03:30 UTC

Hi

if i start a modem (vodafone UMTS) via knetworkmanager, the icon in the system tray doesnt change to the modem-icon.
If the connect fails, there's NO error-message AND i have to disconnect manuelly - even if there's no connection. The networkmanager-status should change to disconnected if the modem-connect fails.

With the UMTS-Card i need a password-authentication by the first try. For a second try it's not allowed to re-authenticate - would be perfect, if we could create something, to support that better.

The UMTS-Card can have UMTS or GPRS connections. With AT-Commands it's possible to find out the current status of connection. Maybe we can visualize this by icon in the system tray.

If the modem is connected, the knetworkmanager doesnt change the online-status for other application (knetwork-daemon) - so kmail feels offine - but thats wrong.


Regards
 Stefan

Comment 1 Timo Hoenig 2007-01-24 09:04:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223966 ***

Comment 2 Timo Hoenig 2007-01-24 09:05:26 UTC

Sorry, that was wrong :-)

Comment 3 Timo Hoenig 2007-01-24 09:11:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> if i start a modem (vodafone UMTS) via knetworkmanager, the icon in the system
> tray doesnt change to the modem-icon.
> If the connect fails, there's NO error-message AND i have to disconnect
> manuelly - even if there's no connection. The networkmanager-status should
> change to disconnected if the modem-connect fails.

This is the missing dial-up support in NetworkManager.  Nothing what is in scope of KNetworkManager.

Please use KInternet until NetworkManager provides proper dial-up support.

> With the UMTS-Card i need a password-authentication by the first try. For a
> second try it's not allowed to re-authenticate - would be perfect, if we could
> create something, to support that better.
> 
> The UMTS-Card can have UMTS or GPRS connections. With AT-Commands it's possible
> to find out the current status of connection. Maybe we can visualize this by
> icon in the system tray.

There is work in progress.  NetworkManager 0.7 is likely to provide better dial-up support.  Helmut has worked on the client side implementation (KNetworkManager) for that.

> If the modem is connected, the knetworkmanager doesnt change the online-status
> for other application (knetwork-daemon) - so kmail feels offine - but thats
> wrong.

This again is a NetworkManager issue.  It's just not ready for PPP.

Closing as WONTFIX as it is very unlikely that we will get any improvements for OS10.2.