Bug 457736

I tried to use my notebook with live CDs, both KDE and GNOME (32-bit versions). My only network way was to use an Option GlobeTrotter Express 7.2 datacard. I was not able to connect to the Internet because the important networking application (umtsmon) was not on the media.

Please note: it is useless in such a situation to have the networking application somewhere on the Internet repository. How can I download it if I do not have network running yet?

This is not an artificial situation. It can occasionally be (and it is in my case at home) a fully real situation. The reason in my case is: Boot sector on my notebook was completely corrupted due to the GRUB bug 450091 and I can not boot from hard disk. I am currently too busy to treat this problem. Hence I am sentenced to use live CDs at home at least until final 11.1 version is released (if I want to stick at openSUSE). And I need networking of course.

So, mobile networking from a live CD session is not an artificial situation and it can from time to time happen that one really needs it.
(Of course one can use a workaround - e.g. to go to other computer or to dig the application out somewhere from a corrupted system on disk if it is there, but it is not always easily possible and it usually takes much more time to start networking.)

There is one necessary application on the openSUSE live media now: usb_modeswitch. It is however useless without umtsmon. So, why not to include also umtsmon? It is not too big, neither its dependence. (Umtsmon is dependent on /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 file. In KDE this file should be present. And it can easily be added also to GNOME CD I think. There is certainly enough space there.)

(OK, some experts would be able to make datacard mobile networking also without umtsmon, but not average users or it would take lots of time to configure things.)

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I suggest: please include umtsmon on the live media (both KDE and GNOME, both 32 bit and 64 bit). Please include also the /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 file to GNOME media as a dependence of umtsmon (if really necessary).
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I tested it sucesfully: once I manage to add somehow the files
/usr/bin/umtsmon
and
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
to the GNOME live CD filesystem, then I can start networking with umtsmon (provided that NetworkManager is deactivated and I have sufficient rights). I took the two files from the RC1 harddisk installation.