On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Recently I installed ubuntu 8.10. > > I found few bugs in new network manager, and I like to report them here. > I will also fill them at bugzilla. > > > 1. any wireless connection marked as "system setting" doesn't work, nm > attempts to connect but fails. > Such connections confuse the nm to the point that it might even forget > about a connection and create a new one, I not sure about this, but I > avoid them now, as they really are unstable, nm even crashed few times > when system wide connections were there. On top of that to switch > between local and system connection it in not enought to toggle the > checkbox, but you must change any setting with the checkbox.
I think there have been improvements in trunk after we released intrepid. Though I dont know about crashes. Can you get backtraces for those cases? > > 2. Auto enabled wired connections "Auto eth0" appear on each boot. > This means that even if I set up a manual connection and make it > autoconnect, on next boot "Auto eth0" will reappear and be used instead > of manual connection. Editing "auto eth0" doesn't help, it is reset > after boot. > Same here. I have to spot the right changes and then have to backport that. > > > 3. Even if I tell nm not to remember VPN password it still uses same > password if VPN connection failed (I talk about pptp) > The problem is that I connect to network that uses one time password > generator combined with pin. > This means that if I mistype the pin or password, or time runs out, > I can't reconnect since nm uses now surly invalid password. > Haven't heard of this bug ... which network-manager-pptp package are you using? > > 4. Link-local is broken, this is not your failt, the problem is that > avahi-autopid uses dbus to connect to some service, but it is forbidden > by dbus even for root, I fixed this, and I post details later. you need to install dnsmasq-base package. We will add this to a Recommends, so it gets auto installed in future. > > 5. If nat modules aren't compiled in kernel there is no warning about > that, but connection sharing just fails, I din't yet test this with nat > modules, would be fine to add description stating that this is NAT. > Error condition reporting probably could be improved in general. > > > 6. There is no way to tell with connection should control default > gateway. > I connect to my university via vpn to watch lectures, but I don't want > it to be the gateway, I only want vpn for their netmask. You can edit the routes in the vpn settings. If I am not mistaken, there is a pending fix for making those settings be honoured in -proposed (so in a few days you will get the update). > > > 7. Same when I use wired connection to my second laptop, for speed > reasons. > I know that I can provide no default gateway for connection, but this is > not enough, and on top of that this is only possible for static address, > but I can't use static address for my isp. > > > 8. More to come. I will provide a 0.7 final backport soon in the network-manager PPA ... unfortunately we cannot put that right into intrepid, because on trunk there were last minute API/ABI changes which make this option impossible from a stable release policy perspective. - Alexander _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
