Re: *MAJOR* NetworkManager serial/usb modem configuration problem in fedora 12

[dbrenner <dbrenner dbrenner com>]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 14:53 -0500, rick james wrote:
> On 1/23/10, John Mahoney <jmahoney waav com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, rick james <rj1961r9 gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >>  How do you configure v.92 serial/usb external dialup modems in Fedora
> >> 12? All I see from NetworkManager are options for configuring wireless
> >> modems and other hardware, which quite frankly is totally useless to
> >> me but shows nothing dealing with usb/serial modems, but as can be
> >> clearly  be seen below Fedora 12 itself sees the usb-to-serial port
> >> cable I'm using with my laptop, while with various Fedora 12  live
> >> cd's NetworkManager seem for some completely unknown reason and
> >> idiotic reason seem totally ignore the serial ports on my main
> >> machine.
> >>
> >>
> > I do not remember network manager ever having support for 56k style dialup
> > modems.  It probably sees the usbserial port and try's to detect a cellular
> > data card which uses the same driver, but is unsuccessful and therefore
> > closes the port.  I guess that is less idiotic then trying to create a
> > cellular connection over a noncellular modem.
> >
> > --
> > John
> >
> 
> Then why the hell was system-config-network removed from Fedora 12? It
> was never in *ANY* of the Live CD's beta testing Fedora 12, and when
> people asked about it, they were given what can now be said was
> outright double-talk about how the usb/serial support for external
> modems that was a part of system-config-network was to be included in
> NetworkManager.
> 
> 
> Hell, if you read the WWW site for NetworkManager you'll get the
> impression that it supports *ALL* networking devices just as
> system-config-network did.
> 
> If NetworkManager had *NO* intentions of of supporting noncellular
> modems then why was system-config-network even removed from Fedora 12
> to begin with?
> 
> Someone was clearly *NOT* thinking here.
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There is a system-config-network for Fedora 12.
system-config-network-1.5.99-1.fc12
system-config-network-tui-1.5.99-1.fc12

I use them.
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