Re: Mobile broadband statistics

2009-04-30 Thread Jonathan Petersson
If you look at /proc/net/dev once connected there's counters available showing how much data that has been transferred, I believe this counter will reset each time the interface is disconnected from your computer. Your best choice is probably to write a script that counts the data from /proc/net/d

Re: Mobile broadband statistics

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Hawkins
This would be a great feature, can i also request that you also consider pay as you go subscriptions, which have a capped limit of both data and time, so it would be great to have a counter start tool that could be used to count time and usage. So users could access how much usage they have

Mobile broadband statistics

2009-04-30 Thread Håvard Espeland
Hi, I recently started using the mobile broadband feature of NM, and it works great. Unfortunately, I have a monthly upper threshold on my subscription, which I guess is pretty common. If I exceed this limit, I will get charged excessively per MB transferred. In my case the threshold is 500 MB per

Re: mobile broadband not working anymore

2009-04-30 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:09:09 +0300 Pekka Pekka wrote: > NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 > > and my SPM log... > > Commit Log for Wed Apr 29 18:15:53 2009 > > Upgraded the following packages: > akiradnews (20081019) to 20090428 > firefox (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ub

Re: mobile broadband not working anymore

2009-04-30 Thread Pekka Pekka
NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 and my SPM log... Commit Log for Wed Apr 29 18:15:53 2009 Upgraded the following packages: akiradnews (20081019) to 20090428 firefox (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 firefox-3.0 (3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 3.0.10+nobin

Re: mobile broadband not working anymore

2009-04-30 Thread Brian Morrison
Pekka Pekka wrote: > I've been using a 3G USB modem with NetworkManager applet for a while now > with no problems. All of a sudden, it just stopped working. > > I tried things like restarting, deleting the modem's profile and creating it > again, but it's still not working. > I can connect with my

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread Pablo Martí Gamboa
2009/4/30 Dan Williams > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:06 +0100, Marc Herbert wrote: > > David Sundqvist a écrit : > > > > > If I set it to be managed by NM, will NM try to manage it in any way? > > > Can I set it to be seen, but still unmanaged? Or maybe I could get NM > > > to always output a connec

Re: mobile broadband not working anymore

2009-04-30 Thread Pekka Pekka
BTW, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Pekka Pekka wrote: > I've been using a 3G USB modem with NetworkManager applet for a while now > with no problems. All of a sudden, it just stopped working. > > I tried things like restarting, deleting the modem's profile and creatin

mobile broadband not working anymore

2009-04-30 Thread Pekka Pekka
I've been using a 3G USB modem with NetworkManager applet for a while now with no problems. All of a sudden, it just stopped working. I tried things like restarting, deleting the modem's profile and creating it again, but it's still not working. I can connect with my WLAN dongle though and my 3G m

Re: pessimistic NetworkManager and off-line mode (was: Diskless clients and NetworkManager)

2009-04-30 Thread David Sundqvist
Quoting Marc Herbert : For instance this most obvious false positive: you are connected but not to the internet. Then why would pidgin try to reach MSN servers in this case? There's also the granularity issue; one can't expect NM to determine what ports are blocked by firewalls, proxied, etc

Re: pessimistic NetworkManager and off-line mode (was: Diskless clients and NetworkManager)

2009-04-30 Thread John Mahoney
For instance this most obvious false positive: you are connected but not to the internet. Then why would pidgin try to reach MSN servers in this case? post from two days ago. http://www.nabble.com/-WISH--Make-NM-autodetect-if-it-can-reach-the-internet-td23286488.html Currently, its seems to be t

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 17:17 +0200, David Sundqvist wrote: > Quoting Marc Herbert : > > There seems to be something fundamentally wrong in this no-connection/ > > /offline thing. Since NM can be configured to manage _not all_ > > interfaces (including none at all) then why are some applications > >

pessimistic NetworkManager and off-line mode (was: Diskless clients and NetworkManager)

2009-04-30 Thread Marc Herbert
David Sundqvist a écrit : > Perhaps. Taking a quick look at the NM project webpage, it's not > really that farfetched: "Using the awesome power and flexibility of > dbus and hal, NetworkManager provides facilities for other > applications like browsers, email clients, or system services to b

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:06 +0100, Marc Herbert wrote: > David Sundqvist a écrit : > > > If I set it to be managed by NM, will NM try to manage it in any way? > > Can I set it to be seen, but still unmanaged? Or maybe I could get NM > > to always output a connected status instead of a no-conne

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread David Sundqvist
Quoting Marc Herbert : There seems to be something fundamentally wrong in this no-connection/ /offline thing. Since NM can be configured to manage _not all_ interfaces (including none at all) then why are some applications wrongly assuming NM is always managing the entire network configuration? T

RE: blacklisting a usb device with network manager

2009-04-30 Thread Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
Your virtual machine is only going to see the virtual network that vmware creates. The host system gets to access the hardware directly, all the guests only see the virtual network. -Original Message- From: networkmanager-list-boun...@gnome.org on behalf of FS Inc. Sent: Wed 4/29/2

blacklisting a usb device with network manager

2009-04-30 Thread FS Inc .
Hey all. I have two usb wireless devices that I have plugged into my computer. I am on ubuntu 9.04 so the rt73usb is the kernel module used to drive them. However I only want to use one of them in my host system. The other one I want to use exclusively in a VM machine. It is also driven by

Re: [PATCH] Call cull_scan_list even if there is no access point reported.

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:13 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > The attached patch can help with aging of results when moving into to a place > with no access points (yeah, we can still find some). Thanks for finding this, though I've committed a different fix that should work the same, but

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread Pablo Martí Gamboa
2009/4/30 Marc Herbert > David Sundqvist a écrit : > > > If I set it to be managed by NM, will NM try to manage it in any way? > > Can I set it to be seen, but still unmanaged? Or maybe I could get NM > > to always output a connected status instead of a no-connection which > > triggers firefox of

Re: Diskless clients and NetworkManager

2009-04-30 Thread Marc Herbert
David Sundqvist a écrit : > If I set it to be managed by NM, will NM try to manage it in any way? > Can I set it to be seen, but still unmanaged? Or maybe I could get NM > to always output a connected status instead of a no-connection which > triggers firefox offline mode, etc. (should the c

Re: howto disable default multiple device activation?

2009-04-30 Thread Marc Herbert
Stephen J. Gowdy a écrit : > When in the office I could previously > do 50MB/s from my laptop. If I don't manually disable the wireless > connection I only get 3MB/s. The routing table looks okay; > > [r...@antonia ~]# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: F11 preview - OpenVPN failure

2009-04-30 Thread Jon Escombe
On 30/04/09 12:30, Jon Escombe wrote: Hi, I've just installed the F11 preview, and seem to have a new issue with the openvpn plugin. I get a "the vpn connection xxx failed because there were no valid secrets" error as soon and a try and make the connection. I am using certs for authenticati

F11 preview - OpenVPN failure

2009-04-30 Thread Jon Escombe
Hi, I've just installed the F11 preview, and seem to have a new issue with the openvpn plugin. I get a "the vpn connection xxx failed because there were no valid secrets" error as soon and a try and make the connection. I am using certs for authentication, but perhaps the plugin is expecting