Network interfaces starting with rndis should be named 'Mobile Interface' rather than 'Networking Interface'
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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plasma-widget-networkmanagement (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: plasma-
Phones based on Windows Mobile 6.x have an app called "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS). This allows you to use the internet on a computer via the phone. There is a Linux driver for this called usb-rndis-lite. There is a version of this that comes with Ubuntu, I believe, although it doesn't have the workaround for WinMo 6.1 (which it doesn't work with), but that's not for this bug report. Basically, this driver causes the phone to appear to the computer as a normal ethernet interface, called rndisX (the X being a number as usual). It functions exactly like an ethernet interface, and software can't tell the difference. Because of this, plasma-
Ubuntu 9.04
plasma-
affects: | plasma-widget-network-manager (Ubuntu) → plasma-widget-networkmanagement (Ubuntu) |
setting wishlist as per the request in irc channel by "veger"