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:
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
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.
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.
Here is the bug report on SELinux: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699240
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 ***