how to use NM Mobile Broadband / Edit Connections?

[Jon Stanley]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

>  So I start "WModem" and plug in the phone via USB, and I get a
>  /dev/ttyUSB0, but NM doesn't notice.  No new device shows up in
>  nm-applet.  How is this supposed to work?

Sounds like hal isn't tagging it as a modem correctly.  File a bug
against hal with a lshal of the system.  I had the opposite problem,
where THREE connections were showing up.  Maybe I could give one to
you :).

>  I really don't understand "Edit Connections".  I see 5 tabs, Wired,
>  Wireless, Mobile Broadbad, VPN, and DSL.  Under "Wired" I have "Auto
>  Ethernet", but Add and Edit are greyed out.  All I can do is Delete.
>  Same with wireless SSIDs.  I have nothing under Mobile Broadbad, VPN,
>  and DSL.  Add, Edit, Delete are all greyed out.

I've never had to venture in there :)