https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=191939 ------- Comment #3 from ammulder@chariotsolutions.com 2006-09-20 07:44 MST ------- The root cause of my problem is that I have a laptop with a Verizon WWAN adapter that I can use to connect to the Internet at any time. I can use this with SuSE but it is a manual process -- it acts as a PPP connection but it does not seem to be possible to configure it in the YaST modem configuration screen (and I was told in a previous issue that it was out of scope for SuSE 10.1), or add it to the KInternet connection list, etc. So where I am is that I have a way to connect to the Internet that I use frequently that NetworkManager is effectively unaware of. Here are some of the problems I have: * Firefox goes offline when I disconnect from 802.11 or Ethernet connection. It does not come back online when I connect to WWAN. Firefox is useless to me offline; I want it to stay online always. (Workaround: use a plugin that puts an online/offline icon in the Firefox frame so I can manually toggle) * GAIM absolutely will not connect when I use my WWAN connection. I can't figure out a way to force it to think I'm online. (Workaround: don't use GAIM; kopete works OK) * NTP works irregularly. I'm not sure of the exact current state, but for a long time it has not sync'd as soon as I connect to anything, and I wish it would. I often have to go into the NTP screen and "test" the connection to get it to sync to the current time. I think this often happens after a suspend/resume cycle. What I was kind of hoping for was an option screen in NetworkManager with something like this: When NetworkManager goes offline, notify: [x] Firefox [x] GAIM [ ] ... When NetworkManager comes online, execute: [x] NTP sync [ ] ... If this is not possible, I guess that's OK, but I really wish I could configure NetworkManager to take *nothing* offline since I don't have any use for anything being in offline mode. Finally, I wish the NetworkManager system tray icon had some option or information screen that named the directory "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/" because the only time I've heard of it is when people mention it in a bug report like this. Thanks, Aaron -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.