[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#525638: Bug#525638: [network-manager] upgrade to 0.7.1 broke mobile broadband

[Christophe Prud'homme]

>> It seems that there is a problem with usb-serial and when nm tries to
>> establish the connection there is a crash of the system.
>
> Could you clarify which combinations did/do work
> If I understood you correctly, it is something
>
> 2.6.26 + 0.7.0.99 = no kernel crash, successful umts connection
yes
but the connection shuts down a little while after the connection

> 2.6.29 + 0.7.0.99 = no kernel crash, no successful umts connection
yes

> 2.6.26 + 0.7.1 = kernel crash, no successful umts connection
> 2.6.29 + 0.7.1 = kernel crash, no successful umts connection
Yes

>
> Is that correct? What udev version do you use?
the latest in unstable
0.141-1

> FWIW, the kernel crash is most likely a bug in the kernel driver.
quite possibly yes

> Could you also send me the output of
> NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
> after stopping NetworkManager (/etc/init.d/network-manager stop)
I send that in the next email

Best regards
C.