[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#621851: network-manager: seems to trouble braille display

[Sebastien Hinderer]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.3.998-1
Severity: important

When a braille display is connected to the system through a serial to USB
adapter, /dev/ttyUSB0, it has been noticed that the braille displa handled
by brltty stops working at network manager startup. The hypothesis is that
network-manager is trying to figure out whether /dev/ttyUSB0 is a modem.
It may be better not to do that by default since a braile display hangup is
an important problem for a blind user (imagine that would break the display
on screen...).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.4.6-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-16 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-13   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.6-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.92-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.6-5     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.4-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.10.5-1+b1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               166-1       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-6       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.3.998-1 network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.3.998-1 network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.101-2     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-9.1  Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         166-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.6.10-2.1  client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmas 2.57-1                            A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptabl 1.4.10-1                          administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemm 0.4+git.20110124t203624.00b6cce-2 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policy 0.101-2                           framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp    2.4.5-5                           Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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