On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:43 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I don't know if starting a new thread is the best idea, but the other > topic's tree is really dense now, and I didn't want this to get buried. > > Here are a couple of things to try: > > (1) It occurred to me that most of the people having trouble are probably > using the NM that shipped with FC5. There is a NetworkManager update in > updates-testing that you should really try. > > yum --enablerepo=updates-testing NetworkManager should this not be: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update NetworkManager > > The update has been in testing for nearly a month. I don't know why some > of these updates are taking so long to be rolled out. > > (2) You also want the initscripts from updates-testing (also long overdue > to be pushed out, IMO). If your machine has multiple NICs, then the > current initscripts can swap them on boot and cause lots of flakiness. > Once initscripts is updated, clear the DHCP leases from /var/<something > dhcp related> before trying again. If it were me, I'd delete all devices > in system-config-network, reboot, and reconfigure the interfaces as needed > as well. > > (3) Some of the reliability issues are due to interactions between NM and > flakey drivers, and are not NM's fault. (Usability is a different > matter.) It might be worth trying the Netdev kernels at > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/. They contain > many driver updates. > > (4) There are a number of useful hints for NM and ipw2200 at > http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux. Users of other drivers may find some > useful information there as well. > > (4) For real help with NM, send your issues to the developers' list, > networkmanager-list@xxxxxxxxx (subscribe at http://mail.gnome.org). For > real bugs, file them in Fedora's Bugzilla. The goal of NM is to make > managing connections to multiple networks painless. If it isn't quite > there yet, the developers can use all the help you can provide. > > HTH. > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > -- ======================================================================= The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer. -- John M. Ford, a.k.a. Dr. Mike [If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session at Baycon, I believe he added that the beer-cooled computer uses "Forget Only Memory". Ed.] ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
