*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 311581 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311581
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 311581
MASTER Network Manager integrated ppp support - should allow the
configuration of dial up modems
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Intrepid Network Manager Lacks Dial-up
Agreed.
The same issue effectively prevents any easy way to access the Internet
via a Bluetooth mobile phone and GPRS/EDGE. It took quite a bit of
hacking around and scripting to get things working, and in the meantime
I'm having that stupid forcing Firefox offline thing happening all the
time.
Hi tp42,
I haven't done it yet with Jaunty/external combo. When I feel brave
enough to try, I'll let you know if it works.
Seems to get tougher with each version,
Richard
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 20:24 +, tp42 wrote:
Dear Richard,
thanks a lot for the tips on how to overcome the
Dear Richard,
thanks a lot for the tips on how to overcome the obstacles with network
manager in Interpret and Jaunty.
I work on a fully patched Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty installation an try to get an
external USRobotics UBS dial-up modem online. No success so far, although I got
it to work with
Dear Fred,
I feel we're a bit like monkeys at the keyboard on this, and that
there's probably an elegant fix in modifying Network Manager itself,--
but familiarizing myself with its innards is not something I have time
for.
BTW, I had tried swapping-in an earlier Network Manager, as suggested by
I got Gnome-ppp working in Jaunty (changed froup to dip and permissions
to 660 on /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and chap-secrets), but applications still
would not use the dialup connection. Modifying the .conf file as you
suggested worked although it neutered NetworkManager. (It doesn't know
what happened
