On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 22:13 +0200, Martin Bammer wrote: > When I connect to the internet with a UMTS modem (Huawei E156G) I have > problems with the connection when signal is sometimes to weak (e.g. when > travelling with a train). > When signal is too weak the connection gets lost. (Thats normal and ok). > But when signal strength is strong enough again to reconnect network > manager does nothing. It should automatically reconnect like it does > with wireless connections.
Yes, this is a bug that we do need to fix. > Second problem is that I also can't reconnect manually. When connection > gets lost the "Disconnect" menu entry disappears. So I only can click on > the menu entry with the name of the network provider. But when I click > on it nothing happens. The expected reaction of nm should be to > reconnect. What I have to do to be able to reconnect is to unplug the > umts modem, replugin it again and click on the network provider menu > entry to reconnect. That's very uncomfortable. > Is there a way to solve this problem? What version of NetworkManager are you using? There are additional things we can do to debug this issue as well. Grabbing some logs from /var/log/messages (or /var/log/NetworkManager.log, or /var/log/daemon.log depending on your distro) would help to diagnose this problem. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
