Re: WiFi and PPP support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 09:53 +0100, Marco Antonelli wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to configure a network connection with Ubuntu 9.10 through
> my DSL modem, which is connected to my laptop through ethernet or wifi
> (I can estabilish a connection to my home wlan).
> I managed to establish a connection to the Internet with a DSL
> connection I created with NetworkManager, but it only works if I
> attach the ethernet cable, thus not through WiFi.
> After some web-searching I ended up here:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-November/msg00218.html
> were I read that NetworkManager at the time of that post was not
> supporting PPP over Wifi.
> I therefore tried pppoeconf, and it worked (!) until I rebooted:
> pppoeconf messed up NetworkManager, so I could not connect to my WLAN.
> 
> 
> My questions:
> -Is the 'PPP over Wifi' feature scheduled in a next release or under
> development?

Yes, it might be 0.8.1, but it might also be 0.8.2 depending on how
ambitious we are.  0.8.1 already has a good-sized feature list though:

http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ReleaseProcess

It's definitely planned and been requested by quite a few users.  We
need to do this to better support some Bluetooth stuff anyway.

Dan


> -Does somebody know a way to configure pppoeconf which allows ppp over
> wifi without messing up NetworkManager?
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for this project. I am using GNU/Linux since
> RedHat 8 and NetworkManager has been one of the best additions in all
> these years.
> Marco
> 
> 
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