Network Manager 'New Mobile Broadband Connection' wizard should allow manual settings

[Seb Wills]

Binary package hint: network-manager

The dialog box for adding a new mobile broadband connection in Network Manager contains a list of service providers to choose from.

It should also offer the option of manually entering the configuration information, in case the correct provider is not listed or the suggested settings are out of date. This is especially worth having since many mobile broadband dongles have the APN pre-set and simply need the *99# number to be dialed (and sometimes the username password are not checked either). So *99# should be the default number to dial in the UI for entering the manual settings.

It might even be worth having an explicit option "attempt to use settings stored in mobile broadband device" which would try *99#, blank username and password and no APN set.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

You now have this option in the wizard; once you've chose a country (and if you can't you have a "not listed" option), even down to the actual provider plan where the drop-down contains an extra option for unlisted plans.

Closing as Fix Released.