software-center (Ubuntu 11.10 beta2) does not recognize internet connection made using wvdial

[Santanu Chatterjee]

I have the feeling that software-center must be relying only on some dbus signal to know of availability of net connection. wvdial probably does not use dbus.

[Matthew McGowan (mmcg069)]

Hi Santanu Chatterjee,

Thanks for the bug report. If you can, could you give lp:~mmcg069/software-center/no-nm-net-detect a test and see how that works out for you?

Cheers

[Santanu Chatterjee (thisissantanu)]

Hello Matthew McGowan,

I have never used bzr before. So, I will mention the steps I followed:

1. I used the command:
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bzr branch lp:~mmcg069/software-center/no-nm-net-detect
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to get the branch.

2. Entered the 'no-nm-net-detect' directory created, and saw an executable file named 'software-center' there. So I ran './software-center'. At that moment I was using wvdial to connect to the net. As before, software-center again failed to detect the connection.

3. I also tried some of the other scripts such as 'run_against_rnr_testing_env.sh' and 'run_local.sh', but the again, the application could not connect to the internet.

Please let me know if I should have done something else.

Regards,

Santanu Chatterjee

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Santanu. Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 911706, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.