[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#507843: network-manager: fails to connect to 3G until 'noauth' is added to /etc/ppp/options

[Michael Biebl]

Will Thompson wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Out of the box, 'noauth' is not set in /etc/ppp/options. In this state, 3G
> connections will fail with no explanation given. Adding 'noauth' fixes the
> problem.
> 
> 'man pppd' says that this option is privileged. This might conceivably pose a
> problem.
> 

Hi Will,

could you stop NetworkManager (/etc/init.d/network-manager stop)
and run

NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

and attach the output. What kind of 3G connection do you use?

Thanks,
Michael


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