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  Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Wang <gulfstreamw@126.com> - 2016-05-12 19:00 +0200
    Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-05-12 19:10 +0200
      Re: Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-05-12 19:30 +0200
    Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-12 19:40 +0200
      Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-12 19:50 +0200
        Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 09:20 +0200
          Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-13 09:30 +0200
      Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Wang  <gulfstreamw@126.com> - 2016-05-13 04:40 +0200
    Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 09:00 +0200
      Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager Wang  <gulfstreamw@126.com> - 2016-05-13 18:00 +0200

#167779 — Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

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Hi, everyone.

I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for connecting is not enabled.

How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very much!


Best regards,
Gulfstream

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#167780

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On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband
> connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password
> is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is
> showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for
> connecting is not enabled.
> 
> How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the
> Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very
> much!

What does the password dialog look like? Are you sure it's asking for a
password for the connection, and not for your user password?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

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#167781

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On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 01:13 +0800, Wang wrote:
> Yes, I am sure. The dialog ask the password for mobile broadband's
> password, not for user password

Ok, the manual for network-manager says: 

    "Some providers do not provide a user name, or accept any user name
    when connecting to the network."

with a similar line about the password. So does that work?

(Please reply directly to the list)

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

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#167782

On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote:
> I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for connecting is not enabled.
>
> How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very much!
>

Mobile Broadband services that do not check username and password are 
quite common - they rely on authentication via the SIM card instead.

I have not tried to do this with Gnome but one thing I have done with 
other OSs is to put in a dummy username and dummy password.  Something 
as simple as user, and pass, works with some providers I have used.

Perhaps if you enter a dummy value, the connect button will activate?

Ron

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#167783

On Thu, 12 May 2016 18:28:53 +0100
Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:

> On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote:
> > I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband
> > connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and
> > password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial,
> > a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed,
> > the button for connecting is not enabled.
> >
> > How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the
> > Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you
> > very much! 
> 
> Mobile Broadband services that do not check username and password are 
> quite common - they rely on authentication via the SIM card instead.
> 
> I have not tried to do this with Gnome but one thing I have done with 
> other OSs is to put in a dummy username and dummy password.
> Something as simple as user, and pass, works with some providers I
> have used.
> 
> Perhaps if you enter a dummy value, the connect button will activate?
> 

I'm not using Gnome but I have network-manager-gnome installed on Xfce,
and I'm fairly sure it is my GUI control for Network Manager.

My configuration for a Huawei 3G dongle has *99# for the Number, which
obviously isn't correct, and the Username and Password fields empty. It
has the correct APN shown for my provider, and along with the device
itself, that seems to be all that is needed.

I have a password for a web account with the provider, but this is not
involved when making the connection.

-- 
Joe

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#167799

On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 18:48 +0100, Joe wrote:
[...]
> My configuration for a Huawei 3G dongle has *99# for the Number, which
> obviously isn't correct

Well it works doesn't it? And I bet it doesn't without it. So in my book
that would make it correct ;-) (I remember using such special numbers to
configure data connections on mobile phones in decades past)

-- 
Tixy

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#167800

On Fri, 13 May 2016 08:11:19 +0100
Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 18:48 +0100, Joe wrote:
> [...]
> > My configuration for a Huawei 3G dongle has *99# for the Number,
> > which obviously isn't correct  
> 
> Well it works doesn't it? And I bet it doesn't without it. So in my
> book that would make it correct ;-) (I remember using such special
> numbers to configure data connections on mobile phones in decades
> past)
> 

Yes, it works, the point is that NM doesn't actually need the dongle's
real telephone number, at least not for this provider. I'm fairly
confident (it was a while ago that I last created one) that the only
connection data needed was the ATN.

-- 
Joe

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#167794

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After I complete a new mobile broadband connection, the dialog for input mobile broadband password is showed (see the attachment file). The "Connect" button can not be pressed unless anything is filled in the dialog.

But if I fill anything and press "Connect", the connection can not be established, and I get an error message in daemon.log. The error message is like blew.

May 13 10:02:41 athena NetworkManager[902]: (NetworkManager:902): NetworkManager-wwan-CRITICAL **: modem_prepare_result: assertion 'state == NM_DEVICE_STATE_PREPARE' failed


My laptop is Thinkpad X1 carbon 4th Gen with Debian testing, the mobile broadband slot is embed.

Thanks to everyone!








At 2016-05-13 01:28:53, "Ron Leach" <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:
>On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote:
>> I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for connecting is not enabled.
>>
>> How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very much!
>>
>
>Mobile Broadband services that do not check username and password are 
>quite common - they rely on authentication via the SIM card instead.
>
>I have not tried to do this with Gnome but one thing I have done with 
>other OSs is to put in a dummy username and dummy password.  Something 
>as simple as user, and pass, works with some providers I have used.
>
>Perhaps if you enter a dummy value, the connect button will activate?
>
>Ron
>





 

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#167798

On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote:
> I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband
> connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password
> is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is
> showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for
> connecting is not enabled.
> 
> How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the
> Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very
> much!

Using Google I found this site...
http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-Ares/HWg-Ares_GSM_APN_en.html

And for China Unicom that suggests the username and password should both
be 'guest'

-- 
Tixy

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#167827

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I set the parameters as this site, but the connection can not be established. The error message in the daemon.log. It is showed as blew.

May 13 23:46:12 athena NetworkManager[1427]: (NetworkManager:1427): NetworkManager-wwan-CRITICAL **: modem_prepare_result: assertion 'state == NM_DEVICE_STATE_PREPARE' failed


Is it a bug of Network-Manager?




At 2016-05-13 14:58:05, "Tixy" <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote:
>> I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband
>> connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password
>> is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is
>> showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for
>> connecting is not enabled.
>> 
>> How can I dial a mobile broadband without any password in the
>> Network-manager? Would you please tell me the method? Thank you very
>> much!
>
>Using Google I found this site...
>http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-Ares/HWg-Ares_GSM_APN_en.html
>
>And for China Unicom that suggests the username and password should both
>be 'guest'
>
>-- 
>Tixy
>

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