wireless broadband disabled by default

[Roman Vorobets]

After upgrade to Oneiric, my mobile broadband connection does not connect automatically, as "Enable Mobile Broadband" checkbox is cleared in the network manager menu. I expect mobile broadband connections to be enabled after reboot if I enable it previously.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
$ apt-cache policy network-manager-pptp-gnome
network-manager-pptp-gnome:
  Installed: 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager-pptp-gnome 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 15 10:08:36 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: network-manager-pptp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (1 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Martin Linden (linden)]

I am also affected by this I think: although I have checked 'connect automatically' in the mobile broadband connection settings, I still have to activate the mobile broadband connection manually every time.

[Martin Linden (linden)]

After some reflection, I think my previous post is not relevant to this bug.
I am however able to reproduce the original behavior ("Enable Mobile Broadband" becomes unchecked at reboot), also on my 32 bit netbook.

 $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
$ apt-cache policy network-manager-pptp-gnome
network-manager-pptp-gnome:
  Installed: 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Roman Vorobets (roman-vorobets)]

Update: this also occurs when I replug my 3G dongle. Wireless broadband connections become disabled.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Automatic connection of 3G and VPN isn't currently supported in NetworkManager. We already have a tracking bug for this: bug 848164. As such, I'll mark this one as a duplicate of it.

As for the Enable Mobile Broadband checkbox, at this point it only really shows the current state of the 3G device for powering up or not. It cannot (yet) be used to enable the modem. There's more info about this on the upstream bug (see links in bug 848164) and on the NetworkManager mailing list.

Thanks!