One Hundred Papercuts

PPPoE over wireless not supported

Bug #654060 reported by DregonX on 2010-10-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #232172: MASTER no wlan option for pppoe configuration. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ayatana Design	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Network Manager Applet	Confirmed	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #559134
One Hundred Papercuts	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

After doing a fresh install of Lucid on a friend's older laptop, I was pleased to see all hardware detected and working. My friend was also impressed, as a new linux user. Sadly, his internet connection requires he connect via PPPoE using his wireless card, as his router is limited to allowing wireless functionality, but not remaining always connected. Making linux dial-up a PPPoE ADSL connectino proved virtually impossible, even after searching through countless forums. This process should not be so hard. Windows XP did it in a pinch. Countless users will be turned off of Ubuntu if this type of issue continues.

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DregonX (dregonx) wrote on 2010-10-03:

The DSL tab in Network Manager should just have a setting for Wireless PPPoE. Requiring users to link their DSL connection to a pre-existing wireless connection using link-local (i'm not even sure if that's the solution) is needlessly complicated.

Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) on 2011-01-15

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-01-15

Changed in network-manager-applet:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2011-02-21:

Thank you for reporting this issue and bringing it to our attention. However, this bug is not a valid paper cut, as a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default or featured applications, that affects many users and is quick and easy to fix.
Therefore this bug cannot be addressed as part of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project.

Unfortunately, this bug doesn't seem to have a quick and easy fix.
For further info about the paper cut criteria, please read <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut>.

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "Invalid" ONLY in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project.

Furthermore, as I don't see how this affects the ayatana project, I'll go ahead and mark that Invalid as well.

Finally, please further describe how you created your wireless ADSL connection, and explain exactly where you got stuck so we know what aspects of the usability of NetworkManager need rework.

Thanks!

Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-02-24

Changed in network-manager-applet:
status:	New → Invalid

Revision history for this message

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2011-02-24:

I updated the description and related bug watch since there was an update on the initial one: pppoe over wireless is not supported.

I'm also setting the network-manager-applet package task as Wishlist / Triaged, as something that can be worked on.

summary:	- Wireless PPPoE needlessly confusing + PPPoE over wireless not supported
Changed in network-manager-applet:
importance:	Medium → Unknown
status:	Invalid → Unknown
Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Incomplete → Triaged