This is quite an important "wish" Not only does NetworkManager not provide an interface for ppp connection configuration, but integration with GNOME doesn't pick up that a ppp connection has been made. Thus all "aware" applications (firefox, epiphany, pidgin come to mind) "think" that the user is offline. This is confusing behaviour (in the least) for the user: she is online, but her applications all tell her that she isn't. Not only that, but she had to either install the old network-admin tool to actually configure the connection (or she had to bribe a willing geek to do it for her).
To add insult to injury, the latest kernel build in Jaunty as of writing (2.6.28-11-generic) has usbserial built as a module, so the exotic modem (HUAWEI, or, the latest blossoming provider in .za, NeoTel) isn't recognised and the module parameters that her geek friend set up for her don't work any more. Now she has to learn how to hack the grub boot parameters. To be quite honest, including "detection for an online state" without ppp support (the most common method for a home user to connect to the internet) is a usability FAIL. This has to be sorted out before the official Jaunty release if the community is not to alienate the less tech-savvy of its user base. On the same note, I would like to see the vendor/product ids for common "exotic" usb modems included in the kernel, even if just by way of Ubuntu patchset. These usbserial modems are common, like grasshoppers on the savanna. People are getting them with cellphone contracts and newer ISPs. The usbserial module is known to work with them. At what point does someone add the trivial lines to the usbserial module code to recognise these devices? -- MASTER Network Manager integrated ppp support - should allow the configuration of dial up modems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
