It seems using gnome-ppp or kppp directly is the only option in Intrepid. For gnome-ppp, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/SetUpDialer#For%20Ubuntu,%20alternative%20approach%20(using%20gnome-ppp)
>From the upstream's mailing list [1]: "> 3) Dialup support is gone now? Dialup is so 90's now, but unfortunately > bluetooth DUN is still alive and kicking. However, I couldn't seem to > find a way to use this in NM currently, nor could I find any way to > enable it. Am I missing something here to enable it, or was it just > simply (finally) removed and to be considered legacy? Seems there'd > still be a lot of people stuck using traditional dialup to abandon them > entirely... The "dialup" support in NM was simply a menu shortcut for the distro native scripts to ifup / ifdown the connection, and was in no way integrated into NetworkManager itself. Hence one of *the* most requested features was for integrated 3G support so that people could use the NM VPN plugins with mobile broadband." [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager- list/2008-December/msg00022.html -- [MASTER] NM 0.7 lacks bluetooth 3g support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
