Broadband does not start if set available to all users

[Martin Konôpka]

I am using a 3G datacard (modem) Option GlobeTrotter Express 7.2 . If I set the network manager in default way (i.e. connectiona available only for me as current user) then it works.

However if I try to allow also other users (by clicking corresponding field) then I can not connect to the internet. I can only see that the network icon on the gnome panel indicates that NM is trying to connect and this lasts forever and does not connect.

And why other users? I have also the root user on my system and may sometime need to work and connect also as root. BTW, in my normal account I do not use default UID and GID offered by the system (during installation procedure) because I always prefer to have these numbers same as I have them on a machine of my employer. (I.e. my group is "users" with GID 100 and I deleted group "konopka" from the system.) I thing these changes should not cause problems anyway. I do not encounter any problems with permissions etc; I can normally administer the system under user name konopka as it is usual in ubuntu (via sudo). I would be surprised if my reported NM issue was caused by the fact that I changed my GID.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Tue May 11 22:19:12 2010
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
IpRoute:
 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 10.192.17.60
 169.254.0.0/16 dev ppp0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: yes
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
WifiSyslog: May 11 21:31:24 notebook kernel: [ 1777.965123] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

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