Hi Stumbled on this bug report after going thru hell trying to connect using Three Australia Mobile Broadband on an unlocked E220 dongle using Karmic. The dongle comes from Austria and was working out of the box on Jaunty via BOB Breitband.
Based on on my investigations and digging around it would seem that the issues I was presented were due to incorrect/missing DNS server settings and/or dodgy firmware. Prior to a firmware upgrade I was able to use nm-applet and force the DNS to the free opendns addresses. It worked but was slow, and heck nm-applet just looks rather ugly when in a KDE setting. I read about others having some issues and found this link: http://www.mobilebroadbandrocks.com/e220-72mbps-firmware-version-11117100200 I booted up a Windows box and flashed the E220 with the Maxis firmware (see link further down in that page) and the 'dashboard'. I set up the account on XP and was able to connect with no problems using the opendns DNS addresses. Plugged the device back into KDE after reinstalling plasma network manager, set up the account again under "Mobile Broadband" and connected. The device was able to connect and I was able to browser around a few sites, after entering the APN and Number. So, I'd suggest for those having trouble with the E220 (can't speak for other devices) is : * check your firmware - it may be old and faulty * flash the new one if it is old, on a Windows machine * test connection on Windows * try and connect in KDE * tail /var/log/daemon.log to get hints on what's going wrong, if needed * check your provider's DNS is good (browse by an IP address) Finally, unfortunately, the KDE Network Manager doesn't allow specification of alternate DNS servers - so we're stuck with the ones a provider supplies (in my case they are flaky). Nm-applet allows DNS specification so it's obviously possible. Hope that helps someone out there! Packages: Package: plasma-widget-networkmanagement New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 0.9~svn1029786+ag1-0ubuntu1 $ aptitude show plasma-widget-network-manager Package: plasma-widget-network-manager New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.9~svn1029786+ag1-0ubuntu1 -- Mobile broadband connections fail to connect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334122 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-widget-networkmanagement in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
