Re: setting a specific peer name

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 08:30 -0800, barsalou wrote:
> Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 23:11 -0800, barsalou wrote:
> >> Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> >>
> >> >> The command is 'pppd call mypeername'.....wanted to know if the gui
> >> >> tool could/would replicate that behavior.
> >> >
> >> > That command appears to only tell pppd to read options
> >> > from /etc/ppp/peers/<name>.
> >> >
> >> >> Either that, or how/where do I change all the options for the
> >> >> connection.  It has most of it right, but there are a few items off.
> >> >
> >> > You can change many of the options from the connection editor,
> >> > nm-connection-editor, in the PPP tab for that connection.
> >>
> >> One of the options that cannot be set is the tty device...when
> >> connecting a Mercury USBConnect device, it tries to use ttyS3 and it
> >> should be S4....so using the 'call' option works because I have
> >> specific ability to change that option.
> >
> > The port that should be used is determined automatically by
> > NetworkManager or ModemManager.  So if there's something wrong with
> > that, we need to fix NM.  You should never ever have to specify the port
> > yourself.  What version of NM?
> >
> > You probably mean ttyUSB3/ttyUSB4 too, right?
> 
> Version 0.7.0.100.
> 
> I'm using xubuntu 9.04.
> 
> I did in fact meant ttyUSB3/ttyUSB4....thanks for catching that.

What specific package version of NetworkManager?  Can you provide some
logs from /var/log/daemon.log from when you plug the device in and when
NM recognizes it?

Dan