On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 06:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:38 -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote: > > > > > I'm having problems getting NetworkManager to work correctly on my > > ThinkPad T30, with the built-in wireless (Prism 2.5 chipset). By > > default Fedora uses the orinoco drivers, which do work, and I can get my > > wireless card working, but I have to activate it manually every time > > through the 'Network' panel.. I've got the latest version (cvs packages > > mentioned in the clemson walk-through) installed, but I can't get it to > > find any networks around it. Anybody know of any tricks to get this > > working with my card? > ---- > one of the problems with laptops and pcmcia cards is that the network > services load before the pcmcia service and though it is counter- > intuitive, ONBOOT = YES makes it not work and ONBOOT = NO makes it work > automatically at startup. I would speculate that the reason is that when > the pcmcia service starts, if it detects the network device as already > working, it won't bother with initializing it. Unfortunately for me, this is a pci card, and not a pcmcia. :-/ I'm trying to get the built-in wireless working. Well, it's working and all, just not with NetworkManager (nm-app). -- Preston Kutzner | Network Administrator
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