Bug 203860

Summary: Need for GNOME Modem Configuration Tool as Part of Core
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: apf <d2004>
Component: distributionAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: rawhideCC: dcantrell, rvokal, sundaram, triage
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Description apf 2006-08-24 03:31:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Dial-up modem users often find GNOME lacks support for configuring external 
modems, especially USB ones. kppp is an option but it means users have to 
install all of the base KDE from the install CD-ROMs, overkill if you only 
want one utility.  An ideal solution would be including gppp, a GNOME 
equivalent of kppp on the install disks:
http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_detail.php?id_item=725

Ubuntu are using this as a GNOME dialler as well but they have created 
a "chicken and egg" problem by only including it on their fileshare 
repositories.  Without access to the internet via such a tool, people cannot 
access the fileshares.  Therefore, for GNOME, this will need to be added to 
the install disks.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the gppp modem configuration utility as an option to install from 
CD-ROMS.

Actual results:
Users with USB and other dial-up modems, should be able to configure these 
succcessfully without resorting to the need to install all of KDE to access 
kppp.

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 apf 2006-08-24 04:43:37 UTC
The GNOME-PPP tool discussed here is another option:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7253

As the article states, it does provide a solution for something "sorely 
missing" from GNOME, even in 2006.

Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2006-09-04 16:05:11 UTC
Reassigning to distribution. Network Manager is unrelated to modem dialers



Comment 3 Jesse Keating 2006-09-09 20:38:22 UTC
Has anybody packaged this for Extras?  Can't include a package that doesn't exist...

Its pretty late in the game to add a new package also....

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-11 14:37:55 UTC
I'm confused. How does system-config-network *not* solve this?

Comment 5 apf 2006-09-11 22:56:53 UTC
Hello Bill,

It does not support external USB modems.  I have logged a bug with GNOME about 
this, too.  There is no provision for USB ports in the drop-down list and 
whilst you can type it in, this will not connect to the modem.  It is not an 
unsupported device at the kernel level as KDE's kppp does find it.  It seems 
to be GNOME-specific, so using a GNOME dialler like the tool mentioned would 
resolve this.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-12 02:56:54 UTC
system-config-network is not a GNOME tool, it's a Fedora tool. So issues with
USB modems are probably best handled there.

Out of curiousity, if you manually edit the wvdial.conf/ifcfg file after running
system-config-network, does it work?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-12 02:58:43 UTC
Some prior bugs about s-c-n and USB:

Bug 102368
Bug 177472
Bug 109671

Comment 8 apf 2006-09-12 06:07:33 UTC
"Out of curiousity, if you manually edit the wvdial.conf/ifcfg file after 
running
system-config-network, does it work?"


Don't know.  I will have a look at it when I go home tonight.

Thanks for your interest in this.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-04-03 18:01:52 UTC
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no
longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are
flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer
maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now,
we will automatically close it.

If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or
rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change
the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version
or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.)

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-05-07 00:46:18 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was
first requested. As a result we are closing it.

If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora
version please feel free to reopen it against that version.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp