Prevent mobile broadband from switching to GPRS

[Mazui]

I have a Huawei E1820 modem that keeps switching to GPRS. In Ubuntu there's a setting to make it only use 3G connection. Is this possible in Fedora 16?

I see that there's an 'options' button in the network settings panel, but nothing happens when I click on it.

[tox]

did you try clicking on the + near the - to Add a New Service? what version of NM did you get it going in Ubuntu?

[Mazui]

did you try clicking on the + near the - to Add a New Service?

Yes, I had to do that yesterday. IIRC, the only thing you could do in that dialogue was to choose provider. No option for which mode the modem should use.

I would remove the service and add it again it I could, but the - is grayed out.

The only new interface available in the list when I click + is VPN.


what version of NM did you get it going in Ubuntu?

Oh, when I used it I didn't think I was going to need the version number in the future.. it's the one that came default with Ubuntu 11.04.

[tox]

Yes, I had to do that yesterday. IIRC, the only thing you could do in that dialogue was to choose provider. No option for which mode the modem should use.

I would remove the service and add it again it I could, but the - is grayed out.

The only new interface available in the list when I click + is VPN.




Oh, when I used it I didn't think I was going to need the version number in the future.. it's the one that came default with Ubuntu 11.04.

11.10 comes with 0.9.0 , so 11.04 would of come with 0.8.4, big difference with the 2 NM's

have you tried looking at the NM's website on how to setup Mobile Broadband in 0.9.0 the correct way . or look up ( i would guess ) NM has a man page

[Mazui]

Thanks for the replies! I couldn't make heads or tails of the networkmanager settings. But while I looked for the gconf editor I found 'Network Connections' by chance, and that's where you set the type of mobile connection you want.

Why aren't 'Network Settings' and 'Network Connections' the same program? In Network Connections you can actually do stuff, like create connections. :)

Anyway, the problem is solved and I'm happy.