Subject: base: Network-manager no longer accepts phone for mobile broadband. Package: base Justification: breaks the whole system 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
