Hi, well I wouldn't put it so drastically, I think the function for dial-up in the network-manager at least usable. If you want to connect to the internet via modem, you can use it (follow instructions from Adrians post, it's easy).
What really bothers me is the fact that the tool is not aware of the actual status of the dial-up connection and because of this the tool can't show it to the user. This also has a big consequence/drawback - as the tool doesn't know about the status of the connection, the icon above is shown as "not connected" --> and then you also can't start a VPN- connection! This is really a broken design of the tool. A common use-case is the following: I'm travelling with my laptop and have a UMTS/GSM PCMCIA- Datacard with me. I connect to the Internet (with the DIal Up Functionality of network-manager) and then want to start VPN to establish a secure tunnel to my company. I can't do that, because network-manager doesn't let me start VPN (it's greyed out), because it doesn't know about the dial-up status and thinks it's not connected. If I were at a wireless-hotspot, network-manager does check the status and offers me to connect via VPN (works perfectly, by the way). Perhaps I'll find a workaround by using some scripts to manually start the VPN-connection, but I would rather like to see this fixed. If i can help/test/do anything (except programming, which I can't), I'll gladly do it. Best Regards, airflow -- Dial-up modem in Network-Admin not functional in Feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94304 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
