On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:12 +0100, Marc Luethi wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:47 +0200, Janne Boman wrote: > > > Nothing gets written to that file when I plug in the phone. The applet > > goes trough the set up dialogs, an option to select my carrier appears > > on the list of available networks, but when I select the mobile carrier > > the connection returns to use the wireless network (or whatever I was > > using at that time...). It's kinda weird, the last log entry is dated > > about 7 hours ago, there's nothing on my current session (a power of in > > the middle). > > Try disabling Wireless globally in NM before starting the Mobile > Broadband connection. > > I can't get Mobile Broadband to work either on my Ubuntu 8.10 while any > WiFi or LAN connection remains enabled. It results in a very wierd > setup, where the default route remains on the wlan0 interface (or eth0, > for that matter...).
That part is expected, since WiFi is almost always faster than the 3G, NM will prefer the wifi as your primary connection. > ~$ route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Iface > 10.6.6.6 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 ppp0 > 172.20.124.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 wlan0 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 ppp0 > 0.0.0.0 172.20.124.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 wlan0 > > > Yet, the Mobile ISP's DNS servers take precedence over the WLAN ones: That's not expected, and not something I can duplicate with the 0.7.0 release code. It could be an Ubuntu-specific bug; trying the latest PPA code which is more up-to-date might help to isolate the cause of this. Dan > m...@torch:~$ more /etc/resolv.conf > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN > nameserver 138.188.101.186 > nameserver 138.188.101.189 > nameserver 172.20.124.1 > > > > This can't work, really - what if the Mobile ISP assigns DNS addresses > that are not routeable via the WLAN network? > > > regards > > Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
