On Thu 07 Apr 2005 14:30, Dan Williams wrote: > > I'm running Fedora-3 with KDE. > > I've been trying to get a recent version of NM working on my laptop. > > (I was told this might help get NM running with my Orinoco Gold PCMCIA > > card.) > > > > I first tried to install NetworkManager-0.4-6.cvs20050404.i386.rpm > > You probably don't want to use that package version. NetworkManager has > two branches now, STABLE and HEAD. The only real difference between the > two is that HEAD targets dbus 0.3 and HAL 0.5. These versions of HAL > and dbus are not available on Fedora Core 3, and so you have to use > STABLE for FC3. I've been quite actively backporting fixes to the > STABLE branch of NetworkManager, and even some new features are done on > STABLE and up-ported to HEAD. > > HEAD = NetworkManager-0.4 > STABLE = NetworkManager-0.3.4 Apologies for what is probably a very simple question - but how exactly does one get the STABLE CVS version? Incidentally, I found it was very simple to enable scanning with my card, by installing the latest version of orinoco_cs (orinoco-0.15rc1.tar.gz). I had resisted doing this, because I do not like to run outside" kernel modules. But in this case it turned out to be remarkably easy - "make install" installed everything in the right place in /lib/modules/ replacing the previous version. -- 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
