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Created attachment 500308 [details] messages.bz2 Description of problem: Since Gnome 3 there is the new "Gnome3"-NetworkManager. Which is buggy in many ways. Sometimes a function doesn't work. The main problem is the faulty configuration-process. I could only change options when a connection has been established. But this is useless, whenn no connection will be automatically established and the "options"-Button doesn't work. Mobile broadband connections are seriously no configurable. I couldn't add new connections. Here I can only choose a protocoll (VNC,...) but that doesn't help when I will add a new wired connection or a new broadband connection is impossible to edit the options, bevor I connect to the automatically configured parameters or no automaticaly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 15 Beta, Gnome 3 How reproducible: Very often Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Fedora 2. when a wired connection (f.i. eth0)is automatically configured, disconnect the ethernet-cacble 3. try to configure that connection 4. Plugin a Surfstick 5. Wait until it is configured and try to manipulate that connection is most times unavailable Actual results: It doesn't work. Expected results: - can configure, when the cable is disconnected - the configuration of the autmaticaly configured USB-Surfstick-connection Additional info:
Created attachment 500309 [details] dmesg
The GUI is lacking a method to invoke nm-connection-editor, which provides functionality for editing all connections, both for on- and offline interfaces. I have a feeling this is simply because it doesn't conform to the new aesthetic and I happen to like the look and simplicity of the new "Network" windows, but removing the advanced connection editor from menus too is simply daft, I expect it to be around somewhere I can click to. Google-ing for the appropriate launch command when it used to be in the menu is a regression. At the very least, put it in a menu, or add a button to kick it off from the new window.
I also couldn't use Fedora 15 & NetworkManager at all without knowing nm-connection-editor and starting it from terminal. If it can't be fixed in line with the current graphical interface, it would be good to at least provide a button and not to pretend everything works.
from comment#0: > I could only change options when a connection has been established. on comment#0: couldnt get to options for disconnected network. i was trying to delete a second network from gui. the network was trying to autoconnect [even though set not to] instead of the other network that was set to autoconnect [but was not connecting] (...which is another report...) on comment#3: yah, calling nm-connection-editor directly was pretty handy.
Many things changed since this bug was reported. NM in F17/Gnome seems rather usable to me.