Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-30 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dan, > > > > it is pretty simple actually. Check include/linux/rfkill.h and it is > > > > just poll, read and write. Only one ioctl for rfkill-input replacement > > > > in the future, but that is unimportant and will go away. That is it. > > > > > > > > http://git.sipsolutions.net/gitweb.cgi?p

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:23 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:06 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > > > it is pretty simple actually. Check include/linux/rfkill.h and it is > > > just poll, read and write. Only one i

Re: Towards including network-manager vpn plugins by default in Ubuntu

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:24 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Hi Dan, > > There's this bug currently open in Ubuntu: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/370210 > > Essentially, it's about the fact that VPN plugins, as they are not > included in the "main" d

Re: NM 0.7.1 leaves open fd of /dev/tts/USB2 after disconnect

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:26 +0300, Valmantas Palikša wrote: > Done some digging and found out that NM opens the device twice. This > very often leads to kernel panics here if the device connects multiple > times or is pluged/unpluged when the descriptor is left open. Probably > some bug in the kern

Re: ZTE modem problems and workrounds

2009-06-30 Thread John Mahoney
QUOTE from post: < http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7539275#post7539275> "1. Ports The device has 3 serial ports on interfaces 0, 1, & 3 (interface 2 is the mass storage device). These are always assigned to ttyUSB* numbers 0, 1, & 2 respectively. ttyUSB0 is the NMEA port, ttyUSB1 is the m

Re: Network manager vpnc changing the Script

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 16:53 +0530, Syed Mushtaq wrote: > Hi > I have a vpn connection which requires Auth mode as hybrid and a > certificate file . so I had to compile vpnc > with ssl support . Now vpnc on command line works fine but vpnc using > the network manager > failed so I edited the code

Re: ZTE modem problems and workrounds

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 21:46 +0100, Rick Jones wrote: > I've had quite a bit of trouble getting a ZTE 627 3G modem to work > reliably with NM. I've spent a lot of time testing, poking, and > prodding, and there are problems in several areas. Not all of this is > NM directly, but it all impinges. >

Re: Connection sharing and security

2009-06-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:54 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is there something special I need to do to support wireless security > when sharing my network connection on my laptpop? > > On my ubuntu Thinkpad T61 running ath9k driver I can "Create New > Wireless Network..." without any security > and m

ZTE modem problems and workrounds

2009-06-30 Thread Rick Jones
I've had quite a bit of trouble getting a ZTE 627 3G modem to work reliably with NM. I've spent a lot of time testing, poking, and prodding, and there are problems in several areas. Not all of this is NM directly, but it all impinges. I've posted everything I've found on the Ubuntu forums, spe