[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#573356: base: Network-manager no longer accepts phone for mobile broadband.

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 573356 network-manager
thanks

On Mittwoch, 10. März 2010, Petter Dass wrote:
> Subject: base: Network-manager no longer accepts phone for mobile
> broadband. 
> Package: base 
> Severity: important
>
>
> I use a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone with Symbian.
>
> I am on the road a lot, and I often connect the phone to my laptop with a
> USB cable.
>
> Network Manager in Gnome has always recognized the phone, and allowed me to
> connect wirelessly to the Internet.
>
> It works beautifully on my other laptops with Ubuntu and Fedora.
> It also worked fine on this perticular laptop---for a while.
> Now, it no longer shows the mobile connection in the network manager.
> It still works great with WiFi networks, but not the mobile broadband.
>
> I don't know why or when it stopped working, but this laptop is now useless
> for surfing on the bus.
> I always keep my system up-to-date using nothing but the official
> repositories. Maybe an upgrade installed a newer version which has a bug in
> it?
> I did not mess with any config files, as I am aware of.
>
> My laptop is a ASUS eee 1005HA.
> The phone works fine on my other laptops.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
> ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and
> groups ii  dbus                          1.2.20-2   simple interprocess
> messaging syst
> ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
> ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure
> netw
> ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
> lib
> ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging
> syst
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.84-1     simple interprocess messaging
> syst
> ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime
> libr
> ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime
> libr
> ii  libgudev-1.0-0                151-2      GObject-based wrapper library
> for
> ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with
> netlink s
> ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8-1      network management framework
> (GLib
> ii  libnm-util1                   0.8-1      network management framework
> (shar
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
> ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
> ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init
> scrip
> ii  udev                          151-2      /dev/ and hotplug management
> daemo
> ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-1   client support for WPA and
> WPA2 (I
>
> Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
> ii  dnsmasq-base               2.52-1        A small caching DNS proxy and
> DHCP
> ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for
> packet fi
> pn  modemmanager               <none>        (no description available)
> ii  network-manager-gnome      0.8-1         network management framework
> (GNOM
> ii  policykit-1                0.96-1        framework for managing
> administrat
> ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
> - da
>
> Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
> pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information


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