Re: What about modems (winmodems/serial)?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 12:55 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:36 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> >> Hi people,
> >> 
> >> Ubuntu has now chosen NM 0.7 as default network management point.
> >> However, there is regression in Ubuntu as you can't configure ppp
> >> devices anymore via GUI.
> >
> > Not that you could really do so before with NM; it just called out to
> > system scripts.  So you can achieve the same functionality by going to
> > the network control panel and activating the connection there with NM
> > even being involved.  The Dialup menu was simply a short-cut for that.
> 
> Unfortunately that's not sufficient because then you cannot turn
> on a VPN through NM because NM is unaware that you're online.
> Unless there's some trick to tell nm-applet "hey, I'm online.
> Enable VPNs so I can turn one on" that I am unaware of, this is
> a MAJOR regression from 0.6.6?

0.6 didn't know that Dialup was active either (because it just called
out to shellscripts!), and thus you couldn't do VPN through a dialup
connection in 0.6 either.  That was one of the biggest complaints
against 0.6, and we fixed that for mobile broadband cards in 0.7,
because the most complaints *by far* came from mobile brandband users.
Something like 25:1 for wanting real mobile broadband over dialup.

Dan