NetworkManager Problem

[Karl Larsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>   
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Obviously you have a problem but you chose the wrong solution. NM makes
>>> wireless easy, network makes it hard. You have disabled the network
>>> init.d script from running. If not that may be your problem.
>>>       
    I have never turned off network in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or other place. 
You are saying I need to do this. Why has none of the mail in their 
list, the NetworkManager Gnome list said to do this?

I agree it might be important since both are trying to do the same 
thing. I put my Internet cable on my laptop with NetworkManager and it 
did it automatic. Just now to yum the madwifi software for F7 I put the 
cable in with just network running and I had to go to network and turn 
on eth0.

So there could be something to all this. I will test on this computer 
with no WiFi which makes it simple. Turn off network and turn on the new 
stuff. I WILL be looking for a problem.

Karl



>> If WiFi is working, NM is great.
>> If WiFi is not working, NM just adds to the problem,
>> since you don't know if the difficult lies in NM,
>> or in the underlying connection.
>>
>> You should say, "NM made wireless easy for me".
>>
>> I have a card in one laptop - Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA card -
>> which works perfectly without NM,
>> but which does not work with NM.
>> NM actually gives the log message, "Get another card"!
>>
>> Basically, NM expects the WiFi device to have a certain scanning facility
>> which is not actually necessary for WiFi connection,
>> and which this Orinoco card does not have, at least as NM expects.
>>  
>>     
> When your right you are right. NM does not work with some cards.
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