Re: ppp and "offline state"

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:07 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 07/09/2009 alle 12.53 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto:
> > 1) the most clear answer I found to the claim:
> > 
> > "NM doesn't support generic ppp, so I must connect with
> > $APP_TO_HANDLE_PPP_CONNECTION and NM doesn't notice it, so
> > $APP_USING_NETWORK doesn't connect, thinking I'm disconnected"
> > 
> > is at [0] and basically says:
> > 
> > "nobody is working on it, if somebody would like to, please step in".
> > 
> > This was obviously an admissible position; is it still true, or did the
> > creation of MobileManager change future hopes of generic (or at least
> > bluetooth) ppp support in NM?
> 
> I accidentally found
> http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/05/22/a%E2%80%A2b%E2%80%A2c-delicious/
> and this answers the "bluetooth?" part of my question (yes, we'll have
> bluetooth in 0.8, great, thanks Dan and Bastien), leaving open only the
> "normal modem" part (and the other 2 questions).

There's no PPP over Bluetooth support yet. It requires changes to
ModemManager. There will be PAN support though.

Cheers