NM 0.7 on Fedora 8 with 3G USB Modems

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

Hi All,

Been reading through the list for details of the 3G modem support in
Fedora8/NM. It seems like its almost there, and from my playing it
seems like I've got it almost working :)

Its one of the seemingly infamous Huawei E220's and a bit of a search
I got it ready to go, and added the problems I had to the RH BZ ticket
here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253096 (I added a
blacklist to the /etc/modprobe.d dir for the USB device).

I then added the .fdi file mentioned on the list earlier in the month
and restarted hal. NM now detects the modem but wouldn't connect. I
first discovered that the NM ppp plugin in the F8 rpm was looking for
/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/nm-pppd-plugin.so where as it was located in
/usr/lib64. A quick symlink fixed that.

I've attached the relevent portion of /var/log/messages which includes
a crash from NM as well. It looks like its almost successful but
there's a selinux message although the system is configured for
permissive (I think it might be a log).

Any ideas or details that I've missed. Is there any config needed that
isn't in a GUI somewhere?

BTW The network is the Three network in the UK.

Cheers,
Peter