Bug 749537

Summary:	NetworkManger: mobile broadband device requests PIN
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Klaus Singvogel <bugzilla>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Vladimir Botka <vbotka>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	bugzilla, suse
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 12.1
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Description Klaus Singvogel 2012-02-29 09:07:08 UTC

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In my EeePC is a mobile broadband device built in. I've already configured it and stored PIN into my environment. - Means an additional request isn't necessary.

But after every (!) wake up (from suspend-to-ram) and after every every boot, I get a requester, requesting for the PIN of the device.

This requester doesn't make sense for two reasons:
a) as the PIN is already present (stored) in the environment
b) as the mobile broadband connection is disabled in NetworkManager, in contrary to WLAN or LAN - just click on NM widget in KDE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect a mobile broadband device
2. Disable broadband connection
3. Configure your connection and store PIN in environment
4. Boot or resume from suspend
Actual Results:  
Unnecessarily a requester for the PIN for the mobile broadband device is coming up.

Expected Results:  
The requester shouldn't pop up just because of system start. The requester should only when starting mobile broadband connection.
Please keep in mind it is built-in and cannot disconnect without modifying the motherboard (unsoldering the device). :-)

Comment 1 Jan Ritzerfeld 2012-05-12 14:28:58 UTC

It looks like the behavior that you expect was implemented a month ago, see KDE Bug 292477 Comment #3
Comment #2 of the same bug explains why storing the PIN was not enough and, in addition, gives a workaround: change your connection to a system connection

Comment 2 Jan Ritzerfeld 2012-07-29 14:57:26 UTC

For me, 12.2 RC 1 works: the SIM PIN is only requested when starting the WWAN connection.
However, see Bug 765244 for a bug regarding the "Always Ask" mode dialog.

Comment 3 Jan Ritzerfeld 2013-01-03 20:48:48 UTC

@Klaus: Does 12.2 work for you?

Comment 4 Klaus Singvogel 2013-01-04 10:10:56 UTC

12.2 is not useable for me:
- Akgregator and Suspend-To-RAM took too long on my Eee PC (compared with 12.1),
- 12.2 consumed a lot more battery capacity in daily work compared with 12.1.
- the movement of init.d scripts to systemd was another reason. 
- even the boot time seemed to take much more time than a 12.1. system, maybe because I have an atom processor in my netbook only, but never measured it.

After 5 days of use 12.2., I went back on 12.1.

@Jan: opensuse-12.2. works in general, but 12.2 is not useable for me, so can't test this in 12.2.

But this is a 12.1 issue, so I think there's no need to ask for 12.2.

Comment 5 Jan Ritzerfeld 2013-01-04 17:06:58 UTC

@Klaus: I seriously doubt anyone will fix this in 12.1. If you do not want to update your whole KDE (note that 4.9 is available for 12.1, too) you might try to update your NetworkManager from the UpdatedApps or even Unstable:Playground repository mentioned in http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories

Comment 6 Jan Ritzerfeld 2013-03-17 18:16:34 UTC

@Klaus: Did an KDE update help?

Comment 7 Jan Ritzerfeld 2013-10-03 15:59:21 UTC

Resolving because of no response.