Comment 23 for bug 1357321

So there are two things that effect this bug.

1) NetworkManager backend is not working with current NetworkManager on any platform.

    The previously mentioned patches fix this. Mostly API changes in NetworkManager from when I last worked on this bearer plugin.

2) Having the generic backend plugin installed alongside other bearer plugins breaks the proper functionality of the networkmanager backend.

    Not quite sure the proper way to deal with this, either by packaging the plugins separately, and only installing the networkmanager one, or by only building the networkmanager plugin. My feeling is to only build what is needed. But this would be tricky to upstream, as the Qt CI autotests probably rely on the generic plugin basic functionality.

The generic plugin knows nothing about ofono and works only on kernel network device nodes, and since I currently do not have a device to test this on, cannot say for sure if the cellular network even is available to QtBearer using generic plugin.