[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#573356: base: Network-manager no longer accepts phone for mobile broadband.

[Petter Dass]

Subject: base: Network-manager no longer accepts phone for mobile broadband.
Package: base
Justification: breaks the whole system
Severity: important


I use a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone with Symbian.

I am on the road a lot, and I often connect the phone to my laptop with a
USB cable.

Network Manager in Gnome has always recognized the phone, and allowed me to
connect wirelessly to the Internet.

It works beautifully on my other laptops with Ubuntu and Fedora.
It also worked fine on this perticular laptop---for a while.
Now, it no longer shows the mobile connection in the network manager.
It still works great with WiFi networks, but not the mobile broadband.

I don't know why or when it stopped working, but this laptop is now useless
for surfing on the bus.
I always keep my system up-to-date using nothing but the official
repositories. Maybe an upgrade installed a newer version which has a bug in
it?
I did not mess with any config files, as I am aware of.

My laptop is a ASUS eee 1005HA.
The phone works fine on my other laptops.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure
netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.84-1     simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime
libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime
libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                151-2      GObject-based wrapper library
for
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with
netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8-1      network management framework
(GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8-1      network management framework
(shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init
scrip
ii  udev                          151-2      /dev/ and hotplug management
daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-1   client support for WPA and WPA2
(I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.52-1        A small caching DNS proxy and
DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet
fi
pn  modemmanager               <none>        (no description available)
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.8-1         network management framework
(GNOM
ii  policykit-1                0.96-1        framework for managing
administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) -
da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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