On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:08:55AM -0000, Komlody Laszlo wrote: > Alexander, > > First of all thanks for your guide to setup NM with my HUAWEI E220 USB > modem. I didn't want to post this here as it is not connecting directly > to the issue. Anyway please find herewith my findings. > > I think the main problem is that my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS distribution mounts > the USB modem to different devices almost during all start-up. Let me > describe in details. I set up NM to use ppp connection via the USB > modem, which is mounted to /dev/ttyUSB0, however sometimes the system > mounts the modem to /dev/ttyUSB1 or /dev/ttyUSB3, thus the system can't > recognize my modem at all, hence NM crashed (simply did nothing) without > any error message. > > When I was lucky and the system mounted the modem to /dev/ttyUSB0 and > ppp connection started, Firefox started automatically in online mode. It > seems the fix is working fine. > > Regarding the applet. After I installed the fix the applet on my system > was disappeared under root account while a normal user can see the > applet on its own desktop. > > Do you have any idea how can I set up my system to mount the modem always to > /dev/ttyUSB0? > What can I do to see the applet again? >
Dont use ubuntu desktop as "root". that should not be necessary. If you have a user with admin permissions that should be enough to do everything you want. Please post your /etc/network/interfaces wit the working ppp setup to continue. Thanks, - Alexander -- network manager gives couldn't activate dialup service warning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147119 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
