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mobile-broadband-provider-info package

Network Manager is unable to use a BSNL mobile as modem

Bug #709049 reported by Nishant on 2011-01-28

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Lucid	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Maverick	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Natty	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Oneiric	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

BSNL is one of the major service providers in India, and they recently changed their network settings to integrate 3G. They have a new APN and some more changes have beeen made. As a result, network manager is unable to connect. wvdial works, and the attached wvdialrc file is the configuration I use for dialing the network(both 2G and 3G use the same settings). However, Network Manager stubbornly refuses to dial the network, and this is a major hindrance.
I think the package should be fixed ASAP to work with BSNL, since it is the largest provider of 3G services in India.

Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64
Nokia 3710 fold(usb modem in PC suite mode)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 28 11:22:08 2011
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
IpRoute:
192.168.241.0/24 dev vmnet1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.241.1
192.168.1.0/24 dev vmnet8 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.1
172.24.64.0/21 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.24.65.74 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
default via 172.24.71.254 dev eth0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager

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lp:ubuntu/oneiric-proposed/mobile-broadband-provider-info

lp:ubuntu/maverick-proposed/mobile-broadband-provider-info

lp:ubuntu/natty-proposed/mobile-broadband-provider-info

lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/mobile-broadband-provider-info

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Nishant (nishant-singh28) wrote on 2011-01-28:

wvdial configuration file used for dialing BSNL network Edit (194 bytes, text/plain)
CRDA.txt Edit (257 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (407 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vboxnet0.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vmnet1.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vmnet8.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlan0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (240 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (22.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nm-system-settings.conf.txt Edit (349 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2011-02-07:

Fair enough.

My wild guess is that is already fixed in an updated mobile-broadband-provider-info, so I'll reassign to that package and defer to Bhavani who knows much more about that package than I do -- perhaps it just needs SRU if the update was done after Maverick release.

affects:

network-manager (Ubuntu) → mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu)

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) wrote on 2011-02-09:

Thanks Mathieu for the quick response on this bug

@Nishant: can you download the latest deb from natty (20110118-1) from here and test out if it works from here

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mobile-broadband-provider-info/20110118-1/+buildjob/2184353/+files/mobile-broadband-provider-info_20110118-1_all.deb

since the package now supports unified APN of BSNL and I myself use a BSNL 3g mobile and modem

PS: If it does work, I'll make a Stable Release Update (SRU) into maverick

regards

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Nishant (nishant-singh28) wrote on 2011-02-09:

It works perfectly with the deb. Thanks very much
I'm actually using the connection to post this.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) wrote on 2011-02-11:

Okay thanks for your feedback! I'll open up a SRU now regarding this

regards

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-12-09:

Seems this is fixed in precise:

mobile-broadband-provider-info | 20111113-1 | precise | source, all

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released
Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-12-09: Please test proposed package

Hello Nishant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mobile-broadband-provider-info into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2011-12-14:

Just as a note, this will need to be re-uploaded to precise with a version of 20111113-1ubuntu1 in order to make sure upgrades happen correctly, so I am setting the status back to Triaged in precise.

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Triaged
Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2011-12-14:

Hello Nishant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mobile-broadband-provider-info into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2011-12-14:

#10

Hello Nishant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mobile-broadband-provider-info into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Maverick):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2011-12-14:

#11

Bhavani,

Could you please do a new snapshot of m-b-p-i for precise, so that we can close the precise task? I know this is most likely to happen again before release, but just in case ;)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-12-19:

#12

This bug was fixed in the package mobile-broadband-provider-info - 20111113-1ubuntu0.11.10

---------------
mobile-broadband-provider-info (20111113-1ubuntu0.11.10) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

* SRU exception upload to support various updated networks
(LP: #856700), (LP: #709049)
-- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:50:51 +0530

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65) wrote on 2012-01-12:

#13

The provider for BSNL/CellOne was modified for India and it should work perfectly.

Verification done for Lucid

Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65) on 2012-01-12

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-done-lucid

Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2012-01-13

tags:

added: verification-done

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-16:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package mobile-broadband-provider-info - 20111113-1ubuntu0.10.04

---------------
mobile-broadband-provider-info (20111113-1ubuntu0.10.04) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

* SRU exception upload to support various updated networks
(LP: #856700), (LP: #709049)
-- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:23:17 +0530

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-01-16

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-16:

#15

This bug was fixed in the package mobile-broadband-provider-info - 20111113-1ubuntu0.10.10

---------------
mobile-broadband-provider-info (20111113-1ubuntu0.10.10) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

* SRU exception upload to support various updated networks
(LP: #856700), (LP: #709049)
-- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:23:17 +0530

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Maverick):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-16:

#16

This bug was fixed in the package mobile-broadband-provider-info - 20111113-1ubuntu0.11.04

---------------
mobile-broadband-provider-info (20111113-1ubuntu0.11.04) natty-proposed; urgency=low

* SRU exception upload to support various updated networks
(LP: #856700), (LP: #709049)
-- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:00:50 +0530

Changed in mobile-broadband-provider-info (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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