On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:55 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dan wrote: > > >>I think NetworkManager (NM), which is part of the Fedora distribution, > >>is meant to do more or less what you ask. > >> > >>Unfortunately I have been unable to get it to work with my Orinoco Gold > >>card but you may well be more fortunate. > >> > >> > > If you can get your card to work with network, NetworkManager will work > > fine, as it uses the same settings as a base. > > Sadly, that is not true - > or was not, when I tried NM quite extensively a couple of months ago. > It is possible it is working now, > as there is very active development of NM > (I subscribe to the NM mailing list) > and patches seem to be added literally daily. > > My suspicion is that NM tried to change the mode > of my Orinoco Gold card in some way that disabled the card > until I re-booted. > > But what exactly do you mean by "the same settings as a base"? > > I might say that I asked the following question on the NM mailing list > last week, but haven't had any response. > If anyone here can answer my query I should be very grateful. > ------------------------------------ > Is anyone successfully running NetworkManager > with an Orinoco Gold or Silver Classic PCMCIA card, > particularly such a card in a PCI or USB adaptor? > > I tried a while ago, and lost all WiFi connection. > However, it is more than likely the fault was on my side, > and I'd like to try again if someone has it working. > ------------------------------------ > It worked great for a while, but now does not. I don't have time to create a bugzilla ticket. > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
