Re: ModemManager / MBM / authentication

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:55 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:31 +0100, Andreas Böhler wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I'm using NetworkManager 0.8 / ModemManager 0.3 on Arch Linux in
> > Austria, my provider is A1 on an Ericsson F3507g HSPA card. It is
> > necessary to authenticate as user "ppp a1plus at". 
> > 
> > With the current NM/MM it is impossible to authenticate with this
> > username (because of the "@" symbol), the card needs to be put into
> > UTF-8 mode first (Thanks to Torgny Johansson for pointing this out on
> > the mbm-devel list). The attached patch forces UTF-8 if an
> > authentication is requested. It is against MM 0.3 as found in Arch, but
> > it should apply with a small offset to the current git as well.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if it is safe to force UTF-8 for everyone, but at least it
> > works for me!
> > 
> > However, I'm experiencing another small problem with the Ericsson card:
> > I have to enter the password manually everytime I fire up the
> > connection. If I use a Huawei K3715 HSPA stick, it connects happily
> > without asking first. Is this a known problem with the Ericsson card?
> 
> Different cards support different charsets, I'm investigating this issue
> generally.  Thanks for the heads-up.  But your patch is mostly correct,
> though I think we probably want to use UTF-8 or UCS2 everywhere we can,
> and fall back to "GSM" when that doesn't work.  Currently we don't set a
> charset, which is why you have this issue.  That's a bug.

I've pushed some fixes for this issue to MM git; any chance you can test
them out for me?

Dan