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How to enable/disable mobile broadband from terminal?

I use ZTE USB Modem on Natty Narwhal. Every thing works fine but sometimes it get disconnected. I want to write Shell script that reconnects mobile broadband if it is disconnected or the received data ...
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How to setup a static ip in Ubuntu? Where i need network, broadcast, dns parameters to fill in from my ISP?

I have a public ip as below which is static (my isp provided) as below: IP Address: x.x.146.50 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.240 Default Gateway: x.x.146.49 DNS1: x.x.1.196 DNS2: x.x.7.196 But ...
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Random disconnects with an Atheros AR5008

For the most part my Wireless network works perfectly fine. But about once a day, at random times I get disconnected and the key ring authentication for my wireless pops up. All of the correct ...
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How do I change / spoof my MAC address and easily switch between multiple ones?

My router can do port-forwarding based on MAC addresses. That is, a specific MAC will get a specific IP, for which I can configure a set of ports to be forwarded. In order to easily change that set of ...
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How to get my eth0 up and running? I have tried all but none bring this up

Ubuntu 11.04. Why the eth0 gets down, is there no tools or script to bring it up? I tried several way, but none worked. Any idea? 1) vim /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto ...
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How to re-compile NM0.9 with enabled wimax?

I found that the new Ubuntu comes with the Network Manager 0.9, but without the enabled wimax support. Please, give some advices how to re-compile it with --enable-wimax features. Thank you.
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Cannot 'enable mobile broadband' even after checking it

Is the network manager in Oneiric different from Natty? How can I get the old one back ? Or is it the problem with some packages ? I used to connect to internet using my mobile broadband device using ...
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Wired Network “device not managed” [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: network manager says “wired device not managed” I have been having serious problems connecting Ubuntu 11.04 to the internet. I have three computer in my ...
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NetworkManager - if-down.d script does not execute

I am trying to use /etc/network/if-up.d/ and /etc/network/if-down.d to send an SMS from my computer to my phone via Gmail whenever my computer enters or exits a wireless network. The main script is ...
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What does each of these network services do

I have the services listed in the /etc/init.d folder starting with 'network': cyrex@cyrex:/etc/init.d$ ls network* networking network-interface-security network-interface ...
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How can I force a USB modem to only connect via EDGE and not 3G?

How do I get Network-admin to restrict connection to GSM (Edge) instead of flipping between 3G and Edge and lose connection. Usually it works out-of-the box, but at my current location there are a lot ...
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Wired network disconnected by NetworkManager - how to fix? [closed]

Ubuntu 11.04, classic desktop. Hardware is working fine, and network was working previously, but after changing my location (and rebooting the machine), Ubuntu just says 'Wired Network Disconnected'. ...
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Disabled Ethernet NIC Keeps Enabling Itself

My new Ubuntu 11.04 server is having issues with the two Ethernet ports on the motherboard. I only need one port, eth1 so I am trying to disable eth2. I executed sudo ifconfig eth2 down which only ...
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How to debug grayed out VPN connection in Network Manager?

I've added a new PPTP VPN connection under Network Manager -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN. Now the connection is listed under "VPN Connections", but it's grayed out. How can I debug this? ...
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Mobile broadband slow to be detected

-- UPDATE 1: relevant syslog lines. -- UPDATE 2: a step further. I was able to solve the GSM modem enable failed: (32) SIM PIN required loop specifying the PIN in Network manager > Edit ...
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Reconnecting to a PPP connection on a Verizon Wireless Modem

OK, I have a shell application running on Ubuntu 11.04 which must use a Verizon Wireless Modem to stay connected. I can't figure out how to invoke this application from the shell, but can do so from ...
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Unable to establish connection to mobile broadband connection

In Unity, when I make a mobile broadband connection, I can dial-up in the bluetooth manager, saying my connection will appear in the Network manager, but it doesn't. Any ideas?
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Wireless connection get disconnected and then gets connected for a few times after booting [closed]

After every boot of my system, I find that the wireless connection is showing as connected but just after the desktop appears, it gets disconnected, then again it gets connected only to be ...
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ConnMan not detecting already existing wireless network

Old title : Wireless connected, but no internet until I re-add network Every time I boot my Laptop, it doesn't connect to Internet. Although upon boot it does say "Connected to ", but when I try to ...
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How to restart KDE network manager?

I am using openvpn to connect to the network in my company. From time to time, the network manager daemon gets stupid, and I have to kill it. When I do it, it connect the network, but not the ...
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Network manager indicator disappeared [closed]

I just upgraded my ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I was trying to check out new indicators and I saw this one called indicator-network. I installed it to check it out. It was not showing me the the ad hoc ...
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How to make brighter the connection used in Network Notification [closed]

In Ubuntu 11.04 using Unity or Gnome Classic the same visual bug is there. The option selected for a network connection is not highlighted enough so it is very hard to know which one is selected. In ...
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Atheros AR2413 not working after upgrade [closed]

I do not know much about networking, so I need some help here. I have used Ubuntu since 8.04 and my WiFi has worked ever since. I upgraded to 11.04 today. After first boot (with a LiveCD) my the ...
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Test Automatic Connectivity

I tried Test Automatic Connectivity on 11.04 beta 2 and as I try to follow these instructions: Using Unity Ensure that NetworkManager is running (computer icon in the notification area) and that no ...
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Can the network indicator be hidden?

Using 11.04. The network indicator is visible at all times, but this isn't necessary for me, it just adds clutter. Is there any way to hide/remove it? Thanks!
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How do I get a D-Link DWA-140 usb wlan working?

I just installed natty beta 1 and my d-link dwa-140b2 usb wlan dongle doesn't work any more. Any ideas for how to fix it? This is what I get in syslog Apr 12 20:00:16 agda kernel: [ 118.779178] ...
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Why is Ubuntu Natty still using Network Manager instead of ConnMan? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Will ConnMan replace NetworkManager on the desktop for 11.04? I've been using the new Network Indicator in Natty as installed from the this article: ...
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Network Manager discards changes to /etc/resolv.conf on boot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How To Auto Add To /etc/resolv.conf? I wrote interfaces entries manually because of weird behaviour from network manager/indicator: $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto ...
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Why does Network Manager always ask for my keyring password?

This is a small nuisance I've had in Ubuntu forever. When I set my computer to login automatically, Network Manager asks me for my keyring password every time it boots and it refuses to connect to the ...
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Will ConnMan replace NetworkManager on the desktop for 11.04?

In the 10.10 release, Unity on the netbook edition used ConnMan. As Unity is now moving to the desktop for 11.04, will that mean that ConnMan will replace NetworkManager on the default Ubuntu desktop ...