Active LTE connection not indicated in nm-applet info text (indicated as 3G)

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

When connected to a LTE network, nm-applet info text indicates it is connected to a 3G network. It should display "LTE" when it has an active LTE connection.

Upstream nm-applet commits:

commit ecb991ba194829ed152e060df18ec1d131b3f29e
Author: Dan Williams <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 7 16:16:37 2012 -0500

    applet: add LTE indicator icon and use it

commit dbe3b1205185c69816c5313d7c75268ee3ba59b1
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Sep 1 15:48:53 2012 +0200

    applet: add support for indicating HSPA+ and LTE technologies in the applet.

Upstream modem manager commits:

commit 0af47c76cc2a4ee7be083d9e678810d9c5944420
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 2 00:14:08 2012 +0200

    gsm: change to proper LTE entry in the ETSI mode table.

commit 90489ae1e31e31ec84dea750561d55881d382fd0
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 31 12:15:14 2012 +0200

    modem-helpers: add support for LTE/4G access technology parsing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: modemmanager 0.6~git201206221719.8289a64-0ubuntu1 [modified: lib/udev/rules.d/77-mm-ericsson-mbm.rules lib/udev/rules.d/77-mm-usb-device-blacklist.rules lib/udev/rules.d/77-mm-zte-port-types.rules]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 1 17:41:50 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: modemmanager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-31 (1 days ago)

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[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Upstream nm-applet commits:

commit ecb991ba194829ed152e060df18ec1d131b3f29e
Author: Dan Williams <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 7 16:16:37 2012 -0500

    applet: add LTE indicator icon and use it

commit dbe3b1205185c69816c5313d7c75268ee3ba59b1
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Sep 1 15:48:53 2012 +0200

    applet: add support for indicating HSPA+ and LTE technologies in the applet.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Upstream modem manager commits:

commit 0af47c76cc2a4ee7be083d9e678810d9c5944420
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 2 00:14:08 2012 +0200

    gsm: change to proper LTE entry in the ETSI mode table.

commit 90489ae1e31e31ec84dea750561d55881d382fd0
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 31 12:15:14 2012 +0200

    modem-helpers: add support for LTE/4G access technology parsing.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Ack, let's try to fit these into 12.10.

I can easily push these two commits into MM as device enablement; I think we can also cherry-pick http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=dbe3b1205185c69816c5313d7c75268ee3ba59b1 as being bugfix (showing the right values, as this bug refers to), even if it actually contains strings to be translated.

I have absolutely no idea how one would translate HSPA+ or LTE, anyway ;)

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

That would be great. There are probably going to be more and more use of LTE/HSPA+ devices until the next Ubuntu release. I am ready to test new packages in Quantal including this fix.

Just be aware that the referred patch to cherry pick seems to require a modification of the libindicator patch too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package modemmanager - 0.6.0.0-0ubuntu3

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modemmanager (0.6.0.0-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_lte_4g_parsing_90489ae.patch,
    debian/patches/git_lte_etsi_mode_0af47c7.patch: cherry-pick the patches
    to properly handle and display LTE/4G technology modes. (LP: #1044744)
  * debian/patches/git_lp1015328_segfault_in_clck_parser_318aaa0.patch: avoid
    crashing when parsing +CLCK responses. (LP: #1015328)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:51:16 -0400

[David Planella (dpm)]

As chatted on IRC, +1 from translations. It's ok to add the translatable acronyms, as most teams won't translate them, but that gives the teams that do translate them to change them.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Japp, it could have been promoted differently in different locations/languages (like here in Norway "4G"="LTE", "Turbo 3G"="HSPA", "Turbo 3G+"="HSPA+" etc.).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager-applet - 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6

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network-manager-applet (0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_indicate_hspa+_lte_tech_dbe3b12.patch: add indications
    and support for HSPA+ and LTE modes. (LP: #1044744)
  * Also update nm-applet-use-indicator.patch for the changes above.
  * debian/patches/git_mac_addr_string_leakage_6dae878.patch: use
    nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa() to output MAC addresses as strings since it's
    available and make sure they get freed to avoid leaks.
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:25:48 -0400

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Works now, thanks!