How do we get some attention to this patch and get it applied to the main
source?
This is a *major* issue for anyone running a persistent 3G connection.

As a workaround, is there a way to unmark as invalid after nm decides to
mark as invalid, other than disconnecting and reconnecting the device?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:56 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I also have some problems with persistent network connections and adapted
> the patch below (you should find the mail in August or September list
> archive), but it's solves only a part of my problems, also it makes things
> much better, I have still problems from time to time, where I need to
> disable and reenable the mobile broadband to get the modem reseted and
> didn't found a solution so far...
>
> Gerald
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:networkmanager-list-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Karlstad
> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:46 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Persistent 3G connection fails, not sure why
> >
> > Den 27. okt. 2011 14:17, skrev David Pfeffer:
> > > Actually, that patch seems to be exactly what's needed. Can this be
> > > patched into the main codebase?
> > >
> > > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/75684426/nm-reconnect.patch
> > >
> > > I haven't tested it specifically but it solves the problem that seems
> > > to be identical to mine.
> > > I don't see where you see that they say it didn't work well for them.
> > > It seems like everyone was happy with it.
> >
> > Yup. The people commenting on it seemed happy, but I emailed the guy
> > directly and he didn't seem to enthusiastic about it now, but again, he
> was
> > using a USB modem and not a built-in Mini PCI-e device like mine.
> >
> > I personally tried applying the patch to the latest network-manager in
> > Ubuntu a couple a days ago, but it never compiled. I'm guessing the code
> has
> > changed a bit since the patch was written. (I think it was the
> NMDeviceType
> > thing that didn't work.)
> >
> > If this actually is what it takes, then I hope someone is willing to have
> a look
> > at it and eventually push it upstream :-)
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Karlstad
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