Re: NetworkManager 0.7.0-rc1 released

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 15:31 +0000, Tim Hawkins wrote:
> Likewise is there any chance of getting a PPA build for intrepid, as i  
> would love fixes for 3G modems and
> ip4config.
> 
> Also does anybody know what the status of the ppp bug with <ms- 
> domainserver> response from wireless modems, resulting in dud
> DNS entries is? Discussion seems to have gone dark on this.

Try ppp 2.4.5 which was recently released, there are some fixes in this
area that may help this problem out.  I can't 100% confirm that 2.4.5
fixes it, but I used to periodically get the bogus DNS servers with
T-Mobile and I haven't had the issue since I backported a few patches:

http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e09ef6886bbf00bc5a9a641110f801e372ffde6
http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8191bf07df374f119a07910a79217c7618f113e

are the two I'm using.

Dan

> On 5 Nov 2008, at 15:19, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Dan,
> >
> > Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I tagged and uploaded NM 0.7.0-rc1 on Sunday night.  Yes, there are
> >> still bugs, and yes, we'll fix the bad ones, and yes, some people's  
> >> pet
> >> bugs will only get fixed after the final release.  I'll do an rc2  
> >> this
> >> coming weekend, and we'll wrap up the 0.7 development cycle by  
> >> November
> >> 15th.  This time for real :)
> >>
> >> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager/0.7/
> >> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/network-manager-applet/0.7/
> >
> > Congrats!  Nice job.  It's been a long time coming and I know you've
> > put a lot of effort into this.
> >
> > I've got two questions:
> >
> > 1) Is this going to get pushed into F9?
> >
> > 2) I'm still using 0.6.6 (yes, I'm still on F7) and I periodically
> >   connect my cell phone via USB and have a "SprintPCS" network
> >   configuration in the "dialup configuration" menu.  Will this
> >   version still support me?
> >
> >> Dan
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > -- 
> >       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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