On Sun, 2006-17-12 at 11:15 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 12:02 -0700, David R Mulligan wrote: > > Some of these requests may be misplaced. Where would I send requests > > for the pptp plugin? > > > > 1) My pptp vpn connection times out. This is unfortunate but it > > happens. When it does happen the nm-applet icon does not change and > > network-manager thinks it is still connected. When the pptp vpn > > connection is disconnected I think that nm should reflect this. > > Hmmm. Seems that the pptp vpn plugin isn't sending the correct messages > back to NM that it's been disconnected. Can you get any logs for this > behavior? Is pppd and/or anything with 'pptp' in it still running? Can > you check /var/log/messages for NM output on this subject?
This is all I get: Dec 15 20:59:13 bordet pppd[5343]: Modem hangup Dec 15 20:59:13 bordet pppd[5343]: Connect time 719.1 minutes. Dec 15 20:59:13 bordet pppd[5343]: Sent 17175969 bytes, received 112846675 bytes. Dec 15 20:59:13 bordet pppd[5343]: Connection terminated. Dec 15 20:59:13 bordet pppd[5343]: Exit. No network manager output at all. > > 2) My Dell D600's uses Fn-f2 to disable the radio. It would be nice if > > that also showed in the left click menu by unchecking the Enable > > Wireless option. > > Not sure what you mean here in the second sentence. But when rfkill > capability becomes standardized in the kernel (quite soon), NM will > definitely support that. You answered my question without understanding it :) > > 3) Connection Information often fails with the error message "Error > > displaying connection information: Could not find some required > > resources (the glade file)!" > > Can you check that you have installed the NetworkManager applet > correctly? What version of NetworkManager are you using, and what > distribution? There are a few more things we can check here once we > know that to narrow down the issue. I am using Ubuntu Edge Eft and I installed it via the synaptic package manager from the network-manager-gnome package. Normally the connection information does work. However after some connects/disconnects/reconnects (vpn? wireless?) it will give me the above message. > > 4) If I click on my active wired network menu item it will reconnect. It > > would be nice if the vpn connections could do that too. It would also be > > nice if the other vpn connections in the connection list would allow me > > to switch without disconnecting. What I really mean is that if I click > > on another one then it should disconnect and connect to the newly chosen > > one. > > Yep. This functionality was actually removed because of issues in the > NetworkManager VPN handling code. That issue will need to be revisited > to fix this, but we should support VPN connections in the same way as > wireless networks are supported, you're right. > > > 5) Connection Information only displays information on the ethernet or > > wireless connection. It should also show information on the vpn > > connection too. > > Right. > > > 6) It would be nice if the nm-applet icon changed somehow when the > > wireless radio is disabled. > > Right; though that may depend on the aforementioned rfkill handling. > > > 7) If 0.7 of NM will be supporting multiple connections nm-applet will > > need to be able to show the status of multiple connections... > > Probably. For the start, we will likely only show the "default" device, > which in multiple-interface land would mean the device which has the > default route and through which packets would go if no other routing > rule matched. > > dan > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
