Bug 301762

Summary:	Mobile broadband bluetooth devices appear multiple times
Product:	[Unmaintained] Network Management	Reporter:	Sergio <sergio.callegari>
Component:	Plasma Widget	Assignee:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dos, lamarque, thomasdn, wstephenson
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Sergio 2012-06-12 18:29:46 UTC

When you set up bluetooth DUN tethering with n multiple mobile devices,
all entries relative to bluetooth DUN devices appear n times...

Say you have 2 mobile phones (smartphone A and featurephone B), both capable of bluetooth tethering.
Say that you use the bluetooth applet to set them up for DUN.

You set up the first one. In the kde network manager plasmoid you see various entries on the left hand panel.
Among them you have:
"Mobile broadband" with the bluetooth symbol.
On the right hand side, you may many entries, but among them you see
 "smartphone A - plan so and so" with a small icon of a mobile on its side

so far so good.

Now you set up the second phone.  Now on the left panel of the nm plasmoid you see.
"Mobile broadband" with the bluetooth symbol, repeated TWICE
On the right hand side you see
"smartphone A - plan so and so" with a small icon of a mobile on its side repeated TWICE
"featurephone B - plan blah blah blah" with a small icon of a mobile on its side also repeated TWICE
for a total of 4 entries rather than 2.

Just imagine what happens if you now add "superphone C", "ultraphone D"
and "extraphone E"...

Both nmcli and the gnome nm-applet get this right, so this is kde
specific.

Tested on 0.9.0.2.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-07-08 23:44:08 UTC

*** Bug 303153 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak 2012-08-12 16:56:53 UTC

I can confirm, but this bug should be more general.

I think #303153 shows it better, it was closed as duplicate of this one.

The problem is that Network Management widget doesn't care if connection is locked down for specific interface via MAC address and displays it anyway - even if Network Manager won't allow to use such connections at all.

The same bug happens when many ethernet interfaces are available. Because of that, Network Management proposes me to apply my ethernet connections to my phone, which is connected via USB, despite of having them properly configured in Network Manager to be applied only on eth0 - and another way too, phone connections shows up in ethernet configuration even if it's correctly configured to be used only with usb0.

I think priority of this bug should be rather high, as it leaves user with not working UI elements without any feedback. Clicking on connections locked to another interface just does nothing. Those connections shouldn't be visible at all.

Comment 3 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak 2012-08-12 17:09:36 UTC

Looks like this one is also a duplicate. 298974

Comment 4 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-08-13 02:53:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 298974 ***