On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:19 -0700, David L wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to NetworkManager and have a few > questions. I have a verizon wireless pcmcia > card. It is working with NetworkManager, but the > connection drops from time to time and doesn't > restart. I have the "connect automatically" > configuration option set, and that seems to work > on startup. But is doesn't reconnect automatically > when the connection dies. So, here are my > questions:
Yeah, reconnect of a failed connection (as opposed to a user-disconnected one) is definitely on the list. I was planning on doing some of the work for that in the 'inhibit' branch in git, so you can track that there. It won't be mobile-broadband-specific at first, but the changes there will help out the mobile broadband stuff too. Dan > 1) Is there an option that I'm missing to tell it > to reconnect automatically? > 2) Is there a command-line method to start > the connection so I can roll my own > reconnection script? > 3) Is there a way to reconnect a VPN > connection when the mobile broadband > connection is restarted? > 4) Is there a way to keep track of total bytes > transferred through a mobile broadband > connection over multiple sessions? I'd > like to keep track of how close I'm getting > to the Verizon 5GB monthly limit. > > Thanks, > > Dave > > PS - I'm using fedora 11. > > PPS - All in all, I'm pretty impressed > with network manager. kudos to the > developers. Of the new stuff > I've tried in the past year or two, > network manager was by far the most > useful and most user friendly. > _______________________________________________ > 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
