Re: pppoe, 3g question and possible bug

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:39 +0800, charlyliu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to use the pppoe features. I create a connection in gconf. But I don't really know what it should have. Now I only put the directory ppp, copying the settings of a vpn connection, the directory pppoe with the username, password and service key and the directory connection with the type = pppoe. 
> 
> Of course, I suppose that password wouldn't be there but I don't know where to put it right now.
> 
> After created the connection settings manually, I can activated the connection with the applet but it returns an error and crashes NM. I debugged and I saw that in function nm_ppp_manager_start, when was going to fill the ppp_settings with the function pppoe_fill_defaults, it couldn't assign the default values to the settings because it didn't exists. 
> I added these lines and at least it begins pppd. 

Hmm, sounds like the PPP setting isn't getting sent to NetworkManager
then somehow?  You said you _do_ have a PPP setting for the connection
in GConf, right?

Instead of adding a new PPP setting there, can you put in a call to:

nm_connection_dump (connection);

and see what the contents of the connection really are?

Dan

> +++ ../NetworkManager/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c  2008-04-02 17:38:16.000000000 +0800
> @@ -636,8 +636,12 @@
>         ppp_setting = NM_SETTING_PPP (nm_connection_get_setting (connection, NM_TYPE_SETTING_PPP));
>         pppoe_setting = (NMSettingPPPOE *) nm_connection_get_setting (connection, NM_TYPE_SETTING_PPPOE);
> 
> -       if (pppoe_setting)
> +       if (!ppp_setting)
> +               ppp_setting = (NMSettingPPP *) nm_setting_ppp_new();
> +
> +       if (pppoe_setting){
>                 pppoe_fill_defaults (ppp_setting);
> +       }
> 
>         ppp_cmd = create_pppd_cmd_line (ppp_setting, pppoe_setting, device, err);
>         if (!ppp_cmd)
> 
> 
> About 3G, I could connect but when I disconnected I saw that a pppd process was still alive and I couldn't kill it unless I stop NM.
> 
> Last question, because I'm a newbie, I don't really understand how NM creates connections and the respectives settings. For example at applet-device-wired.c in function wired_get_secrets, I can't see how it knows if the connection is 8021x or pppoe. When do you tell the connection is that type.
> 
> Sorry about my english and I hope I can help the project with my tests.
> 
> Charly Liu 
> 
> 
> 
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