Re: ppp using NM

[Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk>]

----- "Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 3:28 PM, Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk> wrote:
> > I've just built from the latest SVN & keen to give the UMTS support a try.
> > Do you have a list of the gconf entries needed to get up and running?
> 
> nm-applet creates the gconf entries with default values when you ask
> it to connect and there's no connections suitable for umts cards. That
> doesn't mean thought that things would work out of the box - NM gets
> all it's information about network devices from HAL, but HAL does not
> tell us if a serial device is: a modem? what type of modem? In case of
> GSM cards, is it a data device or monitoring/command device? Until
> someone adds all that data to HAL, I have a simple hack I use at the
> moment. The attached .fdi file adds a capability 'modem' for the
> serial device which is my modem. So if you want to test
> NetworkManager's GSM card support, you'll need to modify this file to
> contain the ids of your modem, copy it to
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ and probably restart hal.
> 
> For the real solution, we need to discuss where to draw the line for
> what should happen in HAL and what in NM. From my (biased) point of
> view, HAL should do all the work and tag all types of modem devices
> with different properties.
> 
> Tambet

Good stuff, got connected first time ;)

Only issues were that it didn't set up resolv.conf, and also added three entries to the applet menu (as the card presents three ports).

Thanks,
Jon.