[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#703236: network-manager: doesn't see nor handle wwan0

[Bertrand Marc]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.4.0-10
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When I plug my Sony Ericsson W995 phone by USB, 3 interfaces are created : ttyACM0, ttyACM1 and wwan0.
I'd like to use wwan0 to access the internet. NM doesn't see the wwan0 interface (as stated by nm-tool,
or looking into syslog) and therefore the nm-applet doesn't show it.

Note that the following command give me access to the internet:
#ifconfig wwan0 up
#dhclient wwan0
(/etc/network/interfaces contains only two lines about lo).

If I install modemmanager, NM handle ttyACM0 and ttyACM1, but these needs information about my
provider to connect. Since the phone is already connected to the internet, exposing wwan0 I shouldn't need
these informations.

Last, it used to work 2 years ago with a phone from the same manufacturer, but the interface was named usb0.

Is there a way to have wwan0 show up in nm-applet when plugged, and make NM request an address via dhcp ?

Regards,
Bertrand

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.8-1
ii  dpkg                   1.16.9
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u3
ii  libc6                  2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-4
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.7-4
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.4.0-10
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.4.0-10
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.3
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian8
ii  udev                   175-7.1
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.62-3+deb7u1
ii  iptables      1.4.14-3.1
pn  modemmanager  <none>
ii  policykit-1   0.105-3
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information