[arch-general] mobile phone internet access

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On 2014-10-08 12:00, arch-general-request at archlinux.org wrote:
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>    1. Re: mobile phone internet access (Jesse Jaara)
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> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:10:23 +0300
> From: Jesse Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com>
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> the dmesg output suggests that the phone is registered as a USB storage
> device, make sure that USB storage mode in the phone is not turned on.
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Yes, solved thank you by changing the mobile mode.

Further observations:

At xfce start, a dialogue dialogue windows appears advising an error 
with wicd dbus connection. After starting the daemon (as root) wicd-gtk 
starts successfully (as normal user) with the command 'wicd-gtk'.

As root:

  wicd-gtk

(process:784): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
         Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Importing pynotify failed, notifications disabled.
Has notifications support False
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
displaytray True
Done loading.
refreshing...
ESSID : ...

/usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py:458: Warning: Source ID 55 was not found when 
attempting to remove it
   gobject.source_remove(self.update_cb)
/usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py:458: Warning: Source ID 2250 was not found 
when attempting to remove it
   gobject.source_remove(self.update_cb)
refreshing...

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 1066, in <module>
     main(sys.argv)
   File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 91, in wrapper
     return func(*args, **kwargs)
   File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 1062, in main
     mainloop.run()

     /usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py:458: Warning: Source ID 51 was not found 
when attempting to remove it
   gobject.source_remove(self.update_cb)

The mobile phone reports successful connection after approval to connect 
to the computer, confirmed by identical mac addresses on both portable 
computer and  mobile phone. However, the wicd-gtk states not connection 
and confirmed by failed use of lynx to access a web site.

Internet access is possible via usb mobile phone tether. Is there a 
connection notification tool (i.e. a dialogue window that appears when 
usb tether connection is enabled and disabled) compatible with xfce?