On 1/23/10, John Mahoney <jmaho...@waav.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, rick james <rj196...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How do you configure v.92 serial/usb external dialup modems in Fedora >> 12? All I see from NetworkManager are options for configuring wireless >> modems and other hardware, which quite frankly is totally useless to >> me but shows nothing dealing with usb/serial modems, but as can be >> clearly be seen below Fedora 12 itself sees the usb-to-serial port >> cable I'm using with my laptop, while with various Fedora 12 live >> cd's NetworkManager seem for some completely unknown reason and >> idiotic reason seem totally ignore the serial ports on my main >> machine. >> >> > I do not remember network manager ever having support for 56k style dialup > modems. It probably sees the usbserial port and try's to detect a cellular > data card which uses the same driver, but is unsuccessful and therefore > closes the port. I guess that is less idiotic then trying to create a > cellular connection over a noncellular modem. > > -- > John >
Then why the hell was system-config-network removed from Fedora 12? It was never in *ANY* of the Live CD's beta testing Fedora 12, and when people asked about it, they were given what can now be said was outright double-talk about how the usb/serial support for external modems that was a part of system-config-network was to be included in NetworkManager. Hell, if you read the WWW site for NetworkManager you'll get the impression that it supports *ALL* networking devices just as system-config-network did. If NetworkManager had *NO* intentions of of supporting noncellular modems then why was system-config-network even removed from Fedora 12 to begin with? Someone was clearly *NOT* thinking here. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list