Plasma network manager does not work with "slow" 3g modems

Bug #891306 reported by Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
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Bug Description

Just like this bug report in kde, http://bugs.kde.org/278231, kde does not work with modems that takes sometime to initialize. Please, provide an update with the fix patch.

My modem is a ZTE MF110 (19d2:0031) and network-manager in console (nmcli) brings the wwan connection without problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager-kde 1:0.9~svngit.nm09.20110610.0c83d8-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 16 17:05:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: networkmanagement
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-16 (0 days ago)

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Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca (luizluca) wrote :
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Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca (luizluca) wrote :

Hello,

I figured out the problem. It is more a usability one.

The interface list the 3g modem but, when I click on it to connect, nm try to do something and in less than a second, it goes down.
However, I noticed that there is a checkbox in nm-plasma that enables wwan devices (as it occurs with wlan). If checked, the connection goes up. Shouldn't it hide the 3g modem if wwan is unchecked? If I click to connect a 3g modem, shouldn't it enable wwan automatically?

How can I enable wwan on boot? wifi connection are enable when the machine is powered on. However, the

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