GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582367
Mobile broadband connetions should be divided into two distict processes: registration and connecting
Last modified: 2009-05-13 14:35:25 UTC
I'm not an expert of this area but I figured out that my mobile brodband device (Option iCon 225 with the hso driver) is mostly unable to connect if the final connection phase (succeeded when the LED lites steadily) is carried out immediately after the registration to the network (when the LED is flashing very slowly). If I manually initialize the registration phase by clicking on "Options" (in nm-apples, since this gnome applet is the only working network manager applet in openSUSE), then I wait for half a minute before actually connecting, then the connection almost always succeeds, otherwise it fails appriximately nine out of ten times. Which takes about five minutes of struggling just to connect to mobile 3G. So, these two phases should be carried out separately. (The Windows client also commits the two phases separately, and always succeeds, but I think that client does some other tricks to severely outperform NeptWorkmanager.) Other information: Related bugreport at KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192434
Which version of NetworkManager is this? I've got an iCON 225 as well, and while it does sometimes take a while to get on the network, I've added fixes to NM 0.7.1 that greatly help this issue for me. If you're not using NM 0.7.1, you probably want to.
(In reply to comment #1) > Which version of NetworkManager is this? I've got an iCON 225 as well, and > while it does sometimes take a while to get on the network, I've added fixes to > NM 0.7.1 that greatly help this issue for me. If you're not using NM 0.7.1, > you probably want to. > Currently 0.7.0. Will try later.
Ok, please try 0.7.1 and let me know how it goes.
(In reply to comment #3) > Ok, please try 0.7.1 and let me know how it goes. > Sorry, I won't be able to test it: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502202#c6 So, you may close this bug. Thank you for your efforts.