Network Manager

[Amitabha Roy]

Dan:

0.2-4 is not yet available on rawhide is it ? As of last night.  I am 
looking at the development tree.
Is there somewhere else I should be looking ?

Amitabha

Dan Williams wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 14:04 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
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>>Hello:
>>
>>What exactly is Network Manager supposed to do ? I  started NM as a 
>>service from system-config-services,
>>it is running. However, the wireless applet  on gnome-panel shows no 
>>networks and all options are grayed out (on right click).
>>And it says that there are no network devices, which is wrong, since I 
>>am using an integrated WIFI card which is working.
>>Is there an alternate user interface to access the Network Manager ?
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>I would suggest upgrading to the latest NetworkManager in Rawhide,
>NetworkManager-0.2-4.  This is much improved, and the applet is a
>notification icon now rather than an actual panel applet.
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>To access the UI of NetworkManager, you have to run a user-side daemon
>called "NetworkManagerInfo".  This should be added to your session, or
>you can start it up from a terminal.  This daemon controls the life of
>the panel applet, and also feeds user preferences to NetworkManager.
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>So it should be like this:
>1) NetworkManager service gets started
>2) NetworkManagerInfo gets started at login-time (must be started after
>NetworkManager, otherwise it exits by design)
>3) NMI will automatically add the applet to your panel
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>>Does NM have the ability to pick up a wireless network in a location 
>>(that has many wireless networks) based on what the user
>>chose the last time around ? I know that Windows does this even for 
>>non-broadcast essid networks, correctly choosing my non-broadcast ssid home
>>network over my neighbours' broadcast members after the first time I 
>>choose it over the others. This functionality would be very nice
>>for my linux laptop.
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>NetworkManager currently does not work with non-broadcasting APs.  This
>will get fixed soon.  In any case, NetworkManager will attempt to
>connect to any access point you have previously chosen from the panel
>applet's menu, and it will pick the last one you chose from that menu,
>even across reboots (that info is stored in GConf).
>
>Dan
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