Hi, I wasted a number of hours when trying to tether using bluetooth... it seems any APN containing an underscore "_" causes the DUN configuration entered into the gnome bluetooth wizard to be *SILENTLY* discarded.
Can anyone reproduce this? Only a bluetooth phone is needed, plus deleting the bluetooth configuration for this phone if you already have one (sorry), so you can run the wizard on it again. You do not even need a valid network subscription to reproduce this problem. I am using NetworkManager 0.8.4 in Fedora 14. Since the APN is the hostname of the GGSN or PDN gateway, I guess this "validation" tries to apply the restrictions of RFC 1123 concerning hostnames (note that, as opposed to a common misconception, the DNS itself does not have any such restriction, see section 11 in RFC 2181. DNS is not just for hostnames.) I see extremely little value in this validation. There are millions of other and more likely typos that it will never catch. Since it does not even issue an error message but silently discard the user input instead, the little value that ever was intended is completely gone. This validation "feature" has now become a severe bug since it hides the next and proper error message (i.e., "connection failed, check your settings"). And wastes hours. Even worse, wvdial is perfectly able to get me online using an APN that includes an underscore. So whatever the standards say, this validation prevents some configurations to work. By the way it is not possible to enter a blank APN either (asking the network use the default APN). This again works perfectly with wvdial. And this is valid. Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list