Originally Posted by soeiro

I've filed a bug on the issue of Connection Manager not recognizing USB networking and the need of extra hacks.

Please vote here, so that we can have proper USB network support:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8207

Originally Posted by trotor

Did you try Mad Developer? IT has some USB settings through gui.

Originally Posted by f2thak

can connect but it wont accept password...

Originally Posted by a1291762

Hmm... I found a workaround, based on an idea from this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=395452

The advice there is to connect to some kind of connection and then bring up the USB connection. What this does is to affect the route order. I have an automatic version of this workaround that simply removes the unwanted route.

In my case, there's a WLAN connection I can connect to but it's not reliable for actual use. The script also works with a 3G/EDGE connection.

I created /etc/network/if-up.d/99_fix_routes which will run every time a new interface comes up.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

interface="$2"

if [ "$interface" = "usb0" ]; then
    route delete default wlan0
    route delete default gprs0
else
    if ping -c 1 192.168.2.14 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        route delete default wlan0
        route delete default gprs0
    fi
fi

exit 0

If the USB interface comes up, it removes the default route through the wlan0/gprs0 interfaces (ie. disables traffic through WLAN/EDGE/3G). If some other connection comes up, it pings the USB host and if it's there, it deletes the default route through wlan0/gprs0.

I don't know why GPRS, EDGE and 3G all use the gprs0 device...

This seems to work fine for me but it is still a workaround. What if there was no phone network or wifi point to connect to but you had a computer using some satelite connection setup for USB networking? What I'm saying is that a proper fix would be better than this workaround.

Originally Posted by eitama

Hi,

Should this line give me the argument you are trying to insert into "interface" and throw it into a file if I put it inside the script?

"echo $2 > /etc/network/if-up.d/temp"

cause it gives me an empty temp file, something is not working very well with the script and I am trying to figure out what.