Networking Follies

[Todd Zullinger]

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Charles Curley wrote:
> Something is wrong, and I have spent several hours trying to track
> it down with no success. I have a Lenovo R51
> (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html) with ipw2200. I have
> been using NetworkManager (NM). The network, including wireless, has
> been working continuously throughout this morning.
> 
> Last night while running kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5, I suspended the
> machine. The wireless networking was working when I did it. When I
> fired up the machine in the morning, NM failed to connect to the
> network. I restarted NM. It insisted on a key for the network. I
> gave it the correct one. No joy.
> 
> For the rest of this description, rebooting is defined as: shut
> down, remove the power cord and battery, wait 5 minutes by the
> clock, and power up again.
> 
> I installed and rebooted to kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5. Same dance. I
> fell back to kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5, on which wireless networking
> worked quite well. Same dance. I then fell back to
> NetworkManager-0.6.2-2.fc5, which used to work just fine. With all
> three of these kernels, I saw the same dance.

Have you tried creating a new user and giving NM a shot there?  What's
in /var/log/messages?  Obviously, NM puts a lot of logging info there,
but perhaps if you scan through it you'll find some obvious problem
that's just not making it back to you via the GUI.

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