NetworkManager Issues

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 00:42 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> - NetworkManager has to have the mode set to "Managed"
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw.  This
> conflicts with FC's insistence on making the mode "Auto" so that I can
> change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500).

NM always sets the mode to Managed/Infrastructure.  You should not be
able to change the channel on the card, since when you put the card into
Infrastructure mode, it will _automatically_ switch to the channel of
the ESSID you set on the card.  There is no need to manually set the
channel and rate unless:

1) your AP is broken
2) your card/firmware is broken
3) you're using Ad-Hoc mode, in which case you aren't using NM

What do you need to explicitly set the channel for?

> - unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my
> laptop.  No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug
> this.  Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click
> on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes
> immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say
> "can't connect to this network" (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I'm
> not root), my laptop freezes hard.  Mouse doesn't respond, kernel
> doesn't respond, etc., etc.

Previously there were issues wtih the IPv6 stack and wireless drivers in
the _kernel_ (#rh135432# in bugzilla), these may be fixed.  They caused
a hard-lock of machine where a panic would print to the console, but of
course you couldn't see it because you were in X.

Dan