On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 09:34 +0200, craig wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Under Debian Etch with Gnome, NetworkManager listed my 56Kb dialup modem and >> was >> able to connect and disconnect to/from the Internet using that modem. > > I'd assume that was NM 0.6.x? Dialup support was pretty hacked in and > was removed a few years ago with NetworkManager 0.7.x. We're looking at > adding it back into ModemManager though, which is what NM 0.7+ uses for > controlling modems and 3G sticks. Now in SUSE already have this patch for this function, it's based on 0.7.x, if needed I'd like to backport the patch for it, and which branch would be better to add this funcion?
>> Now, under Debian Squeeze with Gnome, NetworkManager does not seem to know >> about >> my dialup modem at all, and I don't see any way to enter/edit that sort of >> connection using NM's connection editor. > > Right, because they aren't seen by ModemManager and not supported at > this time :( > > Dan > >> I have scoured for documentation and advice and found nothing about >> NetworkMAnager and dialup modems. >> >> Can anyone suggest the best way to be connect/disconnect to/from the Internet >> from within Gnome? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
