Hey, I am trying to connect to a wireless-broadband provider using an iBurst modem. The driver creates a network device, which reports itself as a wireless device (so iwconfig lists the signal strength). It's not a GPRS/3G, so I can't take the wireless-broadband steps in the connection editor. The DSL steps should work perfectly, except the nic passed to pppd is my ethernet device instead of the one created by the driver. PPPoE must happen via this device, where the driver will pass it onto the modem via USB and the rest happens as usual.
Either way, when NetworkManager invokes pppd, it does it as follows: Dec 29 12:31:47 quintin-VIAO NetworkManager: <debug> [1262082707.053800] nm_ppp_manager_start(): Command line: /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach lock nodefaultroute user <my-user> plugin rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noauth nodeflate usepeerdns mru 1492 mtu 1492 lcp-echo-failure 3 lcp-echo-interval 20 ipparam /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/PPP/8 plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so As you can see, rp-pppoe.so is passed the parameter nic-eth0. This should instead be ib0. If I copy this line and remove the nm-pppd-plugin and change the nic-eth0 to ib0 I can connect (in fact, that's how I sent this e-mail). How can I configure network manager to use the correct nic? My current configuration file: [connection] id=iBurst uuid=60d71ae5-7c0e-4bf9-a338-939fe95585b2 type=pppoe autoconnect=false timestamp=0 [ppp] noauth=true refuse-eap=false refuse-pap=false refuse-chap=false refuse-mschap=false refuse-mschapv2=false nobsdcomp=false nodeflate=false no-vj-comp=false require-mppe=false require-mppe-128=false mppe-stateful=false crtscts=false baud=0 mru=1492 mtu=1492 lcp-echo-failure=0 lcp-echo-interval=0 [ipv4] method=auto ignore-auto-routes=false ignore-auto-dns=false dhcp-send-hostname=false never-default=false [pppoe] [email protected] password=080889SH [802-3-ethernet] speed=0 duplex=full auto-negotiate=true mtu=1492 I tried adding a mac-address line to the ethernet section, but this results in the connection being marked as invalid, and not being available. Quintin Beukes _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
