Hi all,
I've newly upgraded to FC4, and I'm trying to get the NetworkManager to
work, but am having some difficulties...
First, my setup: I have a Sony VAIO R505E laptop with built in ethernet,
using the orinoco_cs driver. Networking works fine using the manual
configurations (system-config-network). I'm testing this out at home,
where I have a WEP-encrypted network which does not broadcast its SSID.
Here are the issues I'm having with NetworkManager:
1. No menu item... I wasn't able to locate a GNOME menu item to launch
the NetworkManagerNotification tasklet. Did I overlook it or is it not
present? I had to run /usr/libexec/NetworkManagerNotification manually
from a terminal.
2. Once scanning, NetworkManager does not detect my network, which makes
sense since my network does not broadcast ESSID. So, I click on the task
icon and select "Create New Wireless Network...". I get a dialog asking
for the ESSID and WEP key. These I enter in and save them. After a few
seconds, NetworkManager starts trying to connect to the network
("tarnation"). However it never gets further than trying. Running
iwconfig at this time doesn't show the ESSID being set.
Since I ran NetworkManagerNotification from a terminal, I can see its
output, which says first "Forcing device
'/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1' and network 'tarnation'
with passphrase". Great. And the 'tarnation' network shows up in the
popup window when clicking on the task icon. However, if I hit any mouse
key on it, I see the following message in the terminal: "Forcing device
'/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1' and network 'tarnation'
without passphrase", and this continues as many times as I select that
item in the popup.
Based on some comments at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml I
went into gconf-editor to see what the settings for tarnation were. Lo
and behold, only an essid and timestamp were there, no wep key, etc.
Trying to add these keys manually didn't help any.
Has anyone gotten NetworkManager to work as expected? I'd love to be
able to roam around to different networks without having to manually
ifup and ifdown.
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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
