NM 0.7 GSM/3G signal strength is not reported by NM

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Previous to NM 0.7 I used comgt and wvdial for 3G. I could report my signal strength with comgt. If there is a standardized way to do this, it could be reported in NM just as it is for wireless.

$ comgt help
comgt Usage: comgt [options] [built in script]'|[external script]

Built in scripts -
  comgt [default] Checks SIM status (requests PIN if required),
                           registration and signal strength reported by
                           datacard.
  comgt info Display configuration of datacard.
  comgt sig Report Signal strength.
  comgt reg Report Registration status.
  comgt PIN Set PIN using COMGTPIN env variable.
  comgt APN Set APN using COMGTAPN env variable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/comgt

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

Yes, this is still an issue.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this will be fixed by modemmanager (will be there for 0.8)

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

modemmanager is in karmic. Fix released?

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

It's still an issue in karmic (9.10).
Can anyone forward this bug upstream?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Hmm, according to this blog post by one of NM devs, this should work now.
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/07/networkmanager-0-8-the-taste-of-a-new-generation/
I'll have to recheck this...

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

network-manager 0.8 is in Ubuntu 10.04, but not in Ubuntu 9.10. Given comment #4 from Alexander, this may now be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04, so maybe someone can test it with a live CD of the development release. Thanks.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

It doesn't seem to be fixed in any obvious way in karmic...

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

It's fxed now at least (Maverick). I'll try to close this.