On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 14:53 -0500, rick james wrote: > On 1/23/10, John Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, rick james <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> How do you configure v.92 serial/usb external dialup modems in Fedora > >> 12? All I see from NetworkManager are options for configuring wireless > >> modems and other hardware, which quite frankly is totally useless to > >> me but shows nothing dealing with usb/serial modems, but as can be > >> clearly be seen below Fedora 12 itself sees the usb-to-serial port > >> cable I'm using with my laptop, while with various Fedora 12 live > >> cd's NetworkManager seem for some completely unknown reason and > >> idiotic reason seem totally ignore the serial ports on my main > >> machine. > >> > >> > > I do not remember network manager ever having support for 56k style dialup > > modems. It probably sees the usbserial port and try's to detect a cellular > > data card which uses the same driver, but is unsuccessful and therefore > > closes the port. I guess that is less idiotic then trying to create a > > cellular connection over a noncellular modem. > > > > -- > > John > > > > Then why the hell was system-config-network removed from Fedora 12? It > was never in *ANY* of the Live CD's beta testing Fedora 12, and when > people asked about it, they were given what can now be said was > outright double-talk about how the usb/serial support for external > modems that was a part of system-config-network was to be included in > NetworkManager. > > > Hell, if you read the WWW site for NetworkManager you'll get the > impression that it supports *ALL* networking devices just as > system-config-network did. > > If NetworkManager had *NO* intentions of of supporting noncellular > modems then why was system-config-network even removed from Fedora 12 > to begin with? > > Someone was clearly *NOT* thinking here. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
There is a system-config-network for Fedora 12. system-config-network-1.5.99-1.fc12 system-config-network-tui-1.5.99-1.fc12 I use them. -- ==================================================================== Dan Brenner 0- [email protected] All Opinions are My Own??? ==================================================================== _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
