Re: Autoconnect for mobile broadband

[Marius Kotsbak <marius kotsbak gmail com>]

Den 14. okt. 2011 18:39, skrev Dan Williams:
> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 05:25 +0200, Anders Feder wrote:
> > My pleasure - if only getting rid of bugs was this easy in all
> > software...
> >
> > Speaking of bugs, I have another open issue in Bugzilla:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659228
> >
> > I've been told that autoconnect is not supported for mobile broadband
> > yet:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/848164/comments/3
> >
> > Are there any plans to rectify this?
>
> Perhaps the solution here is that if any 3G connection that applies to
> the device is marked "autoconnect", that NM enables that device (ie,
> power on an let it search for a network) and then attempts to
> autoconnect it.  We could default to not auto-connecting 3G connections
> (to ensure we don't charge them money), though this would mean that
> after implementing this change, existing 3G connections marked
> autoconnect=true would change behavior.

I have seen this behavior, at least when WLAN is disabled and at bootup. 
Something like on Android could be useful, if WLAN is enabled use it if 
an autoconnect WLAN is available, else autoconnect to 3G until one of 
those WLANs are available.

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Marius