On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:18 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've a netbook and I want to use it to access my home-office email wherever > > I happen to be... with minimal fuss. Sometimes I'll be connected to a wired > > network, sometimes wireless, sometimes via my mobile phone (connected over > > bluetooth) - sometimes from home - sometimes from remote locations. > > > > To this end, I've set up a openvpn VPN using NetworkManager for my client > > which allows me to interact with my email server as if I am at home from > > wherever my netbook happens to be connected. This works wonderfully well > > both for ethernet and 802.11 wireless connectivity. > > > > My problem arises when I want to use my mobile phone. I know my hardware > > works, because I can use NetworkManager to disable wireless, then the > > following wvdial configuration to establish a PPP connection... and - if I'm > > somewhere without any connectivity - it allows me to browse the web and make > > ssh connections to servers via my mobile phone. > > -- > > [Dialer Defaults] > > Init1=ATZ > > Modem=/dev/rfcomm0 > > Baud=460800 > > Phone = *99# > > Username = username > > Password = password > > New PPPD = yes > > -- > > > > > > So far, so good... but, when NetworkManager is not aware of a network > > connection (because the mobile phone connection has been patched-through > > from the command line) it refuses to allow me to turn on my VPN. > > > > Obviously, it would be best if I could avoid using the command line at all - > > but I'm drawing a blank on how to do this. Under "Edit Connections" there's > > a promising looking "Mobile Broadband" - which goes on to give me a dialog > > into which I can patch the phone number "*99#" and username/password (though > > these are both ignored by the wvdial approach, so don't seem to be very > > important...) - but I can't see anywhere to specify the interface... > > /dev/rfcomm0 - which, I suspect, is significant. Furthermore, even with a > > "Mobile Broadband" connection configured in "Network Connections" - I don't > > see how I can activate this from the NetworkManager GUI... (similarly for > > the DSL configurations - though those are of no practical interest to me at > > the moment...) > > > > Is there any way that I can configure NetworkManager to allow me to switch > > between wireless connectivity and 'dialup' networking via my mobile phone? > > It seems so close to working that it would be a shame to be forced back to > > the command line... > > > > In case it is relevant, I'm using NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 - the > > latest Ubuntu default. > > > > Any hints much appreciated... > > > > At this time Network Manager does not support Bluetooth modems. I > think 0.8 supports phones if they use Bluetooth PAN but not Bluetooth > DUN.
Correct; I may just get bored enough today triaging bugs to go implement DUN in 0.8. That opens up a huge number of cellphones, which will inevitably lead to even more bugs since there's much more phone variation than in the relatively small data card space. Oh well; it would help a lot of people out. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
