http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503386 Summary: Mobile broadband connetions should be divided into two distict processes: registration and connecting Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nice@titanic.nyme.hu QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; hu-HU; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042700 SUSE/3.0.10-1.1.1 Firefox/3.0.10 I'm not an expert of this area but I figured out that my mobile brodband device (Option iCon 225 with the hso driver) is mostly unable to connect if the final connection phase (succeeded when the LED lites steadily) is carried out immediately after the registration to the network (when the LED is flashing very slowly). If I manually initialize the registration phase by clicking on "Options" (in nm-apples, since this gnome applet is the only working network manager applet in openSUSE), then I wait for half a minute before actually connecting, then the connection almost always succeeds, otherwise it fails appriximately nine out of ten times. Which takes about five minutes of struggling just to connect to mobile 3G. So, these two phases should be carried out separately. The second phase should be delayed by at least 20 seconds, or it should be initiated manually. (The Windows client also commits the two phases separately, and always succeeds, but I think that client does some other tricks to severely outperform NetWorkmanager, however, the stock NetworkManager 0.7.1 allegedly contains some improvements.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in an Option iCon 225 3G device with a valid SIM card 2. Configure the 3G connection in Gnome's nm-applet (bacause this is the only working NetworkManager applet in openSUSE) 3. Try to connect Actual Results: nine out of ten times, the connection will be unsuccessful Expected Results: It should always succeed -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.