How to NetworkManager

[bitlord]

On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 10:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 05:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > On 02.07.2015, René Harder Olsen wrote:
> > 
> > > How to make a new mobilbroadband connection in Network Manager, I 
> > > can't
> > > find any WAN connection in Network Manager it only offers the 
> > > following
> > > options VPN,Binding,Hold,Bridge and Vlan and I don't believe 
> > > that's
> > > right for what I am trying to do.
> > 
> > Would you mind posting the relevant lines from the output of 
> > "dmesg"
> > after plugging in your device? Most of the mobile broadband devices
> > I've dealt with showed up as an Ethernet connection.
> > 
> > > Sorry for my bad English.
> > 
> > No need to worry, your English is fine.
> 
> Under XFCE I can right click on the NM icon, select "Edit 
> Connections",
> click the "+ Add" button and click in the drop-down menu provided in
> the "Choose a Connection Type" popup. Under the "Hardware" category,
> I see a "Mobile Broadband" option. Select it and click on the
> "Create..." button and fill in the blanks.
> 
> Not sure how it'd look under Gnome or KDE. I refuse to use Gnome3 and
> deal all of its idiocies and resource hogging, and I've never really
> cared for the appearance of KDE.

Not available by default on Gnome, Gnome has its own "interface" to NM,
but Alt+F2 nm-connection-editor (or any other way to run it), can
provide the same interface as described ^^