Software center doesnt detect network connection made through gnome-ppp and wvdial

[Kanishk Dudeja]

I use wvdial and gnome-ppp to connect to my reliance net connect data card..

but software center doesnt detect the network connection..

therefore i cannot install anything using software center..

any workarounds to this?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 24 17:45:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110930)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #856504, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Kanishk Dudeja (kanishk-dudeja)]

Okay..thank you..:)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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