Active LTE connection not indicated in nm-applet info text (indicated as 3G)

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Upstream nm-applet commits:

commit ecb991ba194829ed152e060df18ec1d131b3f29e
Author: Dan Williams <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 7 16:16:37 2012 -0500

    applet: add LTE indicator icon and use it

commit dbe3b1205185c69816c5313d7c75268ee3ba59b1
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Sep 1 15:48:53 2012 +0200

    applet: add support for indicating HSPA+ and LTE technologies in the applet.

Upstream modem manager commits:

commit 0af47c76cc2a4ee7be083d9e678810d9c5944420
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 2 00:14:08 2012 +0200

    gsm: change to proper LTE entry in the ETSI mode table.

commit 90489ae1e31e31ec84dea750561d55881d382fd0
Author: Marius B. Kotsbak <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 31 12:15:14 2012 +0200

    modem-helpers: add support for LTE/4G access technology parsing.

Ack, let's try to fit these into 12.10.

I can easily push these two commits into MM as device enablement; I think we can also cherry-pick http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=dbe3b1205185c69816c5313d7c75268ee3ba59b1 as being bugfix (showing the right values, as this bug refers to), even if it actually contains strings to be translated.

I have absolutely no idea how one would translate HSPA+ or LTE, anyway ;)

That would be great. There are probably going to be more and more use of LTE/HSPA+ devices until the next Ubuntu release. I am ready to test new packages in Quantal including this fix.

Just be aware that the referred patch to cherry pick seems to require a modification of the libindicator patch too.

This bug was fixed in the package modemmanager - 0.6.0.0-0ubuntu3

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modemmanager (0.6.0.0-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_lte_4g_parsing_90489ae.patch,
    debian/patches/git_lte_etsi_mode_0af47c7.patch: cherry-pick the patches
    to properly handle and display LTE/4G technology modes. (LP: #1044744)
  * debian/patches/git_lp1015328_segfault_in_clck_parser_318aaa0.patch: avoid
    crashing when parsing +CLCK responses. (LP: #1015328)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:51:16 -0400

As chatted on IRC, +1 from translations. It's ok to add the translatable acronyms, as most teams won't translate them, but that gives the teams that do translate them to change them.

Japp, it could have been promoted differently in different locations/languages (like here in Norway "4G"="LTE", "Turbo 3G"="HSPA", "Turbo 3G+"="HSPA+" etc.).

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager-applet - 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6

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network-manager-applet (0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_indicate_hspa+_lte_tech_dbe3b12.patch: add indications
    and support for HSPA+ and LTE modes. (LP: #1044744)
  * Also update nm-applet-use-indicator.patch for the changes above.
  * debian/patches/git_mac_addr_string_leakage_6dae878.patch: use
    nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa() to output MAC addresses as strings since it's
    available and make sure they get freed to avoid leaks.
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:25:48 -0400

Works now, thanks!