Bug 749537 - NetworkManger: mobile broadband device requests PIN
Summary: NetworkManger: mobile broadband device requests PIN
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 12.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 openSUSE 12.1
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Vladimir Botka
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Reported: 2012-02-29 09:07 UTC by Klaus Singvogel
Modified: 2013-10-03 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description Klaus Singvogel 2012-02-29 09:07:08 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2

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.