Typo in PPP config

[Ocid]

When in PPP config selecting

Country: Finland
Provider: Dna (Any of the 4 listed, all of them same)

the Plan shows: Array -InternetArray

Also the provider name should be all caps (DNA), and there's also another APN available: data.dna.fi

This also shows in 2.1.x

[Ocid]

So nobody is interested of correcting these typos?


[Raul Ramos]

Hi
Would be nice to have a web page to put this kind of informations and generate this part of the config if the informations is aproved by 5 or 10 members or so.

[Ocid]

2.2 is now RC and still nobody (but me) cares about these?

[phil.davis]

I guess people in Finland care ;)
The problem will be that someone not in Finland is not exactly sure what to put.
Those dropdowns are in this file:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/usr/local/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml
I suggest:

1. Edit the file on your system in /usr/local/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml (Diagnostics->Edit file) until you are happy with it.
2. Sign up to GitHub if you are not already (free account)
3. Press the edit pencil on the file, paste in the fixed file from your system
4. Save the change
5. Make the pull request (it will prompt you)

Then the devs know exactly what is needed for Finland and can accept it easily.

Same for anyone else in another country that needs setting/text changes here.

[Ocid]

Thank you very much Phil!

Pull request is now made, at least I hope so…


[phil.davis]

If you have not done so already, I expect one of the ESF guys will ask you to submit the electronic Individual CLA:
https://portal.pfsense.org/members/signup/ICLA

That makes explicit the status of contributions that we make to the project.

Then you are most welcome to keep making contributions in future - even if you are not a programmer-type, you can fix other typos that you see or whatever. Every time a little thing is fixed, up to about 200,000 installs get the benefit. When I think of it that way, it seems like an extra few minutes fixing a typo or making some validation better pays good dividends.

[phil.davis]

And I see that Renato has commented on https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1384

pfSense uses the serviceproviders.xml file provided by https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ServiceProviders
If you see a problem with local provider, please submit the patch to them and after it's pushed open a Pull Request here asking us to update it.
I'm updating the file today, check if it's enough to fix the issues you are having.

And just committed a whole new bunch of data into that file:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/38e1541b99f6dd4bb9412d4d2e033354ef18127e
So now we know where that data is sourced from. Check it out, contribute up to there, and anyone else that finds their country/providers data is out-of-date can do the same.

[Guest]

I know in the PPP provider settings -USA- that the Straight Talk dropdown needs to add T-Mobile as a provider and the APNs are different for both than stock APN for both carriers native APN's.

ATT=tfdata or att.mvno
T-Mobile=wap.tracfone