Sycorix Linux Experience

Network Manager: system wide UMTS setup

I just had to figure out how to use an UMTS USB stick with Lucid. After installing the right packages it worked without problems.

sudo aptitude install usb-modeswitch-data

The only issue I found was that I could not create a permanent mobile network configuration with network manager. Save did not work. I had to configure it with the mobile configuration wizard every time the stick was put in. So I figured out that a system wide permanent configuration can be created by using this command:

gksudo nm-connection-editor

I also had to select that the configuration is valid for all users.
For the technically interested: the configuration is stored in folder

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

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