[Bug 997200] Re: [FFe] Add NetworkManager connectivity config package
Jeremy Bicha
jeremy at bicha.net
Wed Feb 22 21:25:47 UTC 2017
** Description changed:
Feature
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A separate network-manager-config-connectivity package that contains the 3-line config snippet to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check. This is the same approach taken by Fedora since 2014 (their package is named config-connectivity-fedora).
jbicha would like to have ubuntu-gnome-desktop recommend this package for zesty. With this config, GNOME Shell will popup a browser page when a captive portal is detected. The browser page is powered by webkit2gtk.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/#captive-portals
By making it a separate package, it is very easy for Ubuntu flavors to
opt in to installing it by default if they choose. And it's very easy
for users to opt in or out without needing to mess around with system
configuration files.
This new feature (and how to opt out) will be mentioned in Ubuntu
GNOME's Release Notes.
Enabling the connectivity check by default for all of Ubuntu was discussed almost 5 years ago:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035490.html
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+ Link to new discussion:
+ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-February/039696.html
Git merge proposal attached.
Original Bug Report
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When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when connecting to the network. Some combination of network manager and update manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to handle this, and update are left in a non-working state after not being able to read package headers file.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 17:27:02 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
IpRoute:
default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0 proto static
10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.155.38.82 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => New
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