Bug 459406

Summary:	[enh] show mobile broadband signal strength
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Ross <car.insurance3>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcbw, gbarros, iannis, j.golderer, poelstra, tscherf, wtogami
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OS:	Linux
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Description Paul Ross 2008-08-18 15:58:20 UTC

Description of problem:

If you take your laptop online using mobile 3G broadband (Auto GSM Network in NetworkManager) then the signal strength is not displayed. It is displayed for wireless networks, but not for GSM networks

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the NetworkManager icon in bottom left of desktop
2.Select "Auto GSM Connect" to connect to "mobile broadband"
3.Connect to the mobile broadband service
4.Note that you have an aerial icon, with signal strength not displayed
  
Actual results:

User is presented with an icon showing an aerial and no other information

Expected results:

Signal strength is displayed, as it is for wireless networks

Additional info:

Comment 1 John Poelstra 2008-09-09 03:09:49 UTC

which version of NetworkManager do you have installed?

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2008-09-09 16:44:19 UTC

NM does not pull signal strength from mobile broadband devices at this time.  Some devices aren't capable of providing it, or provide it over proprietary interfaces.  This is something that NM will attempt to do in the future however.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:48:36 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Thorsten Scherf 2009-10-20 08:36:07 UTC

do we have any updates on this?! 

NetworkManager-0.7.996-4.git20091002.fc12.i686 is still missing the signal strength feature for GSM networks.

Comment 5 Dan Williams 2010-05-13 18:02:07 UTC

Fixed in F13+ and in updates-testing for F12.