On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 09:24 +0100, Andreas Böhler wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 16:22 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:55 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:31 +0100, Andreas Böhler wrote: > > > > I'm using NetworkManager 0.8 / ModemManager 0.3 on Arch Linux in > > > > Austria, my provider is A1 on an Ericsson F3507g HSPA card. It is > > > > necessary to authenticate as user "[email protected]". > > > > > > > > With the current NM/MM it is impossible to authenticate with this > > > > username (because of the "@" symbol), the card needs to be put into > > > > UTF-8 mode first (Thanks to Torgny Johansson for pointing this out on > > > > the mbm-devel list). The attached patch forces UTF-8 if an > > > > authentication is requested. It is against MM 0.3 as found in Arch, but > > > > it should apply with a small offset to the current git as well. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure if it is safe to force UTF-8 for everyone, but at least it > > > > works for me! > > > > > > > > However, I'm experiencing another small problem with the Ericsson card: > > > > I have to enter the password manually everytime I fire up the > > > > connection. If I use a Huawei K3715 HSPA stick, it connects happily > > > > without asking first. Is this a known problem with the Ericsson card? > > > > > > Different cards support different charsets, I'm investigating this issue > > > generally. Thanks for the heads-up. But your patch is mostly correct, > > > though I think we probably want to use UTF-8 or UCS2 everywhere we can, > > > and fall back to "GSM" when that doesn't work. Currently we don't set a > > > charset, which is why you have this issue. That's a bug. > > > > I've pushed some fixes for this issue to MM git; any chance you can test > > them out for me? > > Just checked out today's git of NM and MM: It registers and connects > fine now! > > It still asks for the password and MM sometimes tries to use the ttyACM2 > device which fails. Disabling and enabling the card again usually works > and MM either uses ttyACM0 or ttyACM1 which are both fine. This issue > was also present in the stable release!
Hmm; that indicates that we need to make sure we grab the right port; I'll ask the Ericsson guys if we can figure out which port is always the right one. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
