Bug 698975

Summary:	Mobile Broadband doesn't work with Fedora 15
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Kaeser <bmkaeser>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	AppelonD, bz1834, dcbw, jklimes
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Description Martin Kaeser 2011-04-22 13:35:48 UTC

Description of problem:
Fedora 15 Beta:
mobile broadband doesn't work, I can't turn it on.

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


How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Fedora 15 (Gnome 3.0)
2. Plug-in mobile broadband (Huawei E180 USB-Modem)
3. Mobile broadband shows up in network connections; but I can't turn it on in nm.
  
Actual results:
no mobile network

Expected results:
mobile network should be accessible

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dennis Appelon Nielsen 2011-04-23 20:03:38 UTC

I can confirm this problem. I did even test with 2 different modems my onboard (Lenovo w510) and a standard USB modem. I did get connection once after disabling selinux but after reboot and even a setenforce 0 I only did see strange profiles in the applet an I could not get connection. What can I provide to help out here please feel free to contact me with any questions. Identi.ca @appelond twitter @appelond

Comment 2 Bonzo1834 2011-04-24 13:02:04 UTC

Same here with an Huawei K3765 HSPA USB Stick on a Dell Latitude E4300 laptop.

The stick is recognised, PIN window comes up, Network settings offer "Mobile broadband" option. Clicking on "Mobile broadband" just shows "Disconnected"; nothing happens when clicking on "Options..."

This bug should be marked as a release blocker because people will expect mobile broadband to work with any modern OS.

Comment 3 Bonzo1834 2011-04-24 14:20:28 UTC

workaround (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1461421):

nm-connection-editor

Remaining problem with SELinux:

"SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/pppd from read access on the lnk_file /var/lock"

will file a bug report on this

To short-circuit SELinux:

grep pppd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol

semodule -i mypol.pp

Now mobile broadband is working on my machine.

Comment 4 Bonzo1834 2011-04-24 14:30:31 UTC

Here is the bug report on SELinux:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699240

Comment 5 Jirka Klimes 2011-05-04 10:57:11 UTC

Run nm-connection-editor to create a broadband connection. Then you can activate it in applet.
There are some fixes for Network Settings's Mobile Broadband (gnome-control-center) in bug 698054, of which this bug is duplicate, I think.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698054 ***