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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | networkmanager sets offline-mode, during ppp connection | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 | Reporter: | Juergen Weigert <jw> |
| Component: | Mobile Devices | Assignee: | Christian Zoz <zoz> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Minor | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | behlert |
| Version: | Beta 5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.1 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 357354 | ||
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Description
Juergen Weigert
2008-04-19 10:51:05 UTC
sorry, this is not "mobile devices". this is a problem in the networkmanager concept: NetworkManager assumes that it is the only one to manage the network, but it is unable to do that. No idea how this could be fixed. Best would be to disable the offline mode switching in firefox. Thanks Seife; Bugzilla does not accept gnome-maintainers@suse.de or gnome-maintainers@novell.com -- reassigned to Ingo for further dispatch. This will not be changed in 10.3, because there is no simply way to change this. And we have to concentrate on 11.0 with NM 0.7. For 11.0 this behavior would be a valid bug. My bad, forgot to reopen this for 11.0. I still see this issue in SLED11-Beta5 (using Gnome for a change) Networkmanager is running, but it seems nm-applet has no button to trigger dialin. I am using cinternet -A to do so. while connected via smpppd, nm-applet shows its disconnected icon. Firefox believes that I am working offline, and wants me to hit File->Work Offline and then Try Again. NM does not and never will support cinternet/smpppd/kinternet/yast/... dialup connections. There is however support for GSM/CDMA connections built in NM 0.7 (that's opensuse 11.0 and later). There has not been enough interest in landline dialup support to make it worth to implement. Christian, I believe this issue is beyond networkmanager. Please advise. My smpppd connects to my cellphone via bluetooth. No landlines involved. Is it possible to switch the systems online / offline mode manually? It should be possible to set it on/offline manually. At least NM does this via dbus messages. Should be possible to send this messages. Maybe there is even a better way. Tambet, can you help? But this unfortunately does not validate the bug report itself. What you are doing is just unsupported. Talk to PM about that. You should control your network connection via NM. If that is not possible, please file a bug report or feature request for that. You can't tell NM "set network state "on"". Only NM itself can do that because once NM has an active connection, it also needs to know everything else about the connection: the active device name, driver, address(es), route(s), DNS(s). In other words, once you know all that, and also provide monitoring, you've implemented support for your device in NM. And that's exactly what's missing. Bluetooth isn't supported in NM. The upstream bug to track it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432774 There's also a FATE entry for bluetooth support, id 302311. So, executive summary: SLE11 does not support dialup via Bluetooth. Stefan Behlert, please mention this prominently in the release notes, since I don't want to drown in bluetooth "bugreports" for that missing feature. I'm not aware of a 'this feature is not impolemented' section in the release notes. Any suggestion of a text snippet? |