Bug 726660 - "Enable Mobile Broadband" checkbox is useless
Summary: "Enable Mobile Broadband" checkbox is useless
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ModemManager
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-29 11:36 UTC by Jan F. Chadima
Modified: 2013-02-19 18:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-19 18:15:52 UTC
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Description Jan F. Chadima 2011-07-29 11:36:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Apparently this checkbox doesn't reflect anything. NM doesn't remember that it has been previously checked on, and even when checked on again, it disables itself in couple of seconds.
     
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have any effect on the functionality itself, because even when checked off, the main NM menu offers the connection
     
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.8.1-9.el6_1.1
     
How reproducible:
100%
     
Steps to Reproduce:
1.insert USB GSM mobile thing
2.wait
3.wait (does it have to take so long, it seems to be much much faster on Mac OS X)
4.icon of the URB Flash drive (this device is both) shows up on desktop indicates the ability of the hardware
5.right-click NM icon
     
Actual results:
"Enable Mobile Broadband" is checked off (although it is not the first time this gadget is used), when renabled it checks off again
     
Expected results:
"Enable Mobile Broadband" is checked on, because it was used previously
     
Additional info: 
when manually checking on "Enable Mobile Broadband" .. it is checked off immediately.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2011-07-29 20:58:32 UTC
If you can grab /var/log/messages from when this bug occurs, that would be excellent.

Comment 3 Jan F. Chadima 2011-08-01 15:25:26 UTC
each try emits one similar mesage:


Aug  1 17:22:58 blecha dbus: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_return", sender=":1.1" (uid=0 pid=1562 comm="NetworkManager) interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.59" (uid=501 pid=2395 comm="nm-applet))

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2011-10-07 16:00:34 UTC
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 7 Dan Williams 2013-02-19 18:15:52 UTC
Could be a bug in ModemManager, but for some reason the modem is not able to be enabled (PIN code?) and thus it's disabled again.  If we get the requested information we could proceed.


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