[Fwd: [Bug 211932] Re: KNetworkManager dialup menu expands to thin empty box]

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008 08:48:59 schrieb Ryan Novosielski:
>> Helmut Schaa wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Samstag, 24. Mai 2008 09:39:16 schrieb Ryan Novosielski:
>>>> Is this one upstream or Kubuntu-specific? Would be swell to get it
>>>> fixed.
>>> SUSE does not use KPPP. Therefore I cannot reproduce this issue here but
>>> if someone posts a patch I'm glad to commit it.
>> Do you have the ability to use a VM at all or anything like that? I
>> can't write a patch because I'm not really a programmer (my title
>> notwithstanding :)) -- I'm also not sure where to start looking.
>>
>> Is there some way that someone with a system exhibiting this bug CAN do
>> to help it get solved somehow without writing their own patch?
> 
> Just asked Timo about this issue and the NetworkManager backend for each 
> distribution has to implement the necessary functions to list all dialup 
> connections. I guess the ubuntu backend simply does not implement that.
> 
> Maybe you should contact ubuntu's networkmanager maintainer regarding this 
> issue.

Thanks, this should get me started. Out of curiosity, what does SuSE use
for PPP that does work?

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