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network-manager package

  1. Bug #432205
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 432205

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 432205] Re: [MASTER] pppd timeout when trying to establish a DSL connection

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 04:50:40PM -0000, VladimirCZ wrote:
> I just installed network-manager from https://launchpad.net/~network-
> manager/+archive/trunk to Karmic 64bit and I can make DSL connection via
> nm. Thank you for your effective fix. Well done !
>
> Let me have a few questions / remarks:
>
> 1) I have manually commented out sections created by pppoeconf in /etc/network/interfaces in order to have only the following section effective:
> # --------------------------------------------
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> # --------------------------------------------
> Is it all right? Is it enough?

Yes, just these "lo" definitions is what you need/want ...

>
> 2) There is again the problem of "insufficient privileges" when one
> wants to edit any already existing DSL connection with the "for all
> users" range of effect. Then after this alert nm applet behaves like it
> has crashed and restarted.

Could you please open a new bug for the "insufficient provilegs" attach the
system-connection file you are having? anonymize secrets etc. before.

also post what you get on terminal when starting nm-connection-editor directly
and editing the dsl connection to that bug.

 - Alexander