On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 09:53 +0100, Marco Antonelli wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to configure a network connection with Ubuntu 9.10 through > my DSL modem, which is connected to my laptop through ethernet or wifi > (I can estabilish a connection to my home wlan). > I managed to establish a connection to the Internet with a DSL > connection I created with NetworkManager, but it only works if I > attach the ethernet cable, thus not through WiFi. > After some web-searching I ended up here: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-November/msg00218.html > were I read that NetworkManager at the time of that post was not > supporting PPP over Wifi. > I therefore tried pppoeconf, and it worked (!) until I rebooted: > pppoeconf messed up NetworkManager, so I could not connect to my WLAN. > > > My questions: > -Is the 'PPP over Wifi' feature scheduled in a next release or under > development?
Yes, it might be 0.8.1, but it might also be 0.8.2 depending on how ambitious we are. 0.8.1 already has a good-sized feature list though: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ReleaseProcess It's definitely planned and been requested by quite a few users. We need to do this to better support some Bluetooth stuff anyway. Dan > -Does somebody know a way to configure pppoeconf which allows ppp over > wifi without messing up NetworkManager? > > > Thank you very much for this project. I am using GNU/Linux since > RedHat 8 and NetworkManager has been one of the best additions in all > these years. > Marco > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
