NetworkManager Is Driving Me Crazy!
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Thu Mar 20 20:02:32 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:13 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> When I first set up Fedora 8, I had some problems getting wlan0 (via
> ndiswrapper) working. Now I can prevent wlan0 from being activated, even
> when I'm using a wired connection via eth0.
>
> I connect wirelessly at home and wired at the office. When I'm in the
> office, I have to turn off NetworkManager (using services), kill
> wpa_supplicant and nm-applet, and change config-services-network for
> wlan0 so it's not being controlled by NetworkManager. This lets me
> activate and use eth0. This works fine for about 30-60 minutes and then
Is this because you have a static address at work?
> wlan0 gets activated and screws up accessing the network. Then I have to
> deactivate wlan0 and eth0, and re-activate eth0 so I can use the network
> again. I have to do this over and over.
>
> I have no clue as to why wlan0 is being activated with eth0 already
> being activated and I don't know what program is causing this to happen.
> I suspect it's something to do with NetworkManager because I never had
> this problem before using NM. But I don't know for sure.
>
> How can I prevent wlan0 from being activated???
In NM, you can turn off all wireless interfaces by right-clicking the
applet and unchecking "enable wireless". Then NM should connect to your
wired network only.
The advance release of NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8 at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ seems to have the ability to connect
to the interface described in ifcfg-ethX as an option, rather than
connecting via DHCP.
>
> Rick B.
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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