Re: NM no longer supports a dialup modem?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 19:08 +0200, Bin Li wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 09:34 +0200, craig wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Under Debian Etch with Gnome, NetworkManager listed my 56Kb dialup modem and was
> >> able to connect and disconnect to/from the Internet using that modem.
> >
> > I'd assume that was NM 0.6.x?  Dialup support was pretty hacked in and
> > was removed a few years ago with NetworkManager 0.7.x.  We're looking at
> > adding it back into ModemManager though, which is what NM 0.7+ uses for
> > controlling modems and 3G sticks.
> Now in SUSE already have this patch for this function, it's based on
> 0.7.x, if needed I'd like to backport the patch for it, and which
> branch would be better to add this funcion?

NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE is the 0.6.x branch, but it's pretty much
dead.  I'm not updating it anymore since I hope nobody is using 0.6.x
anymore :)

Dan

> >> Now, under Debian Squeeze with Gnome, NetworkManager does not seem to know about
> >> my dialup modem at all, and I don't see any way to enter/edit that sort of
> >> connection using NM's connection editor.
> >
> > Right, because they aren't seen by ModemManager and not supported at
> > this time :(
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >> I have scoured for documentation and advice and found nothing about
> >> NetworkMAnager and dialup modems.
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest the best way to be connect/disconnect to/from the Internet
> >> from within Gnome?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
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