Comment 19 for bug 232172

Still no answer? Isn't somebody maintaining network-manager monitoring these comments? Because there isn't a stable, supported method to establish a PPPoW connection in Ubuntu, I am unable to use it at all in certain locations, which is making my work difficult as Ubuntu is my main OS. Also, as I am trying to popularize Ubuntu with other people, I have to cope with pppd and its quirks on their machines as well.

pppd is behaving very unstable on my main laptop, breaking the ppp connection every couple of minutes and freezing, making me do this way too often:

sudo poff -a
sudo kill -9 `pidof pppd gpppon`
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
sudo restart network-manager

(otherwise I can't reestablish the connection and even like this I have to wait for some time for DNS to start treating me nicely again)

It's not up to the network, as on the same machine on OS X it works smoothly.

Having a functional internet connection is an **essential** part of an OS. I really think that one road to connecting to the internet shouldn't be marked as a "whishlist" for 4 years, basically making it unsupported and left to end users to meddle with low-level tools that are hard to understand. The process of controlling this daemon, redialing if it's not working etc. is something that (at least in my eyes) falls in the domain of network-manager.

I hope this will grab somebody's attention and help in advancing the bug past the whishlist state. If this starts making way towards a new feature, I'd be more than happy to test it and provide feedback.

Cheers,
Dražen