Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> In my experience, NM just adds another layer of obfuscation
>> to an already confusing (and confused) setup.
>> I found after a lot of experiment (and requests on the NM mailing list)
>> that NM just did not work with my WiFi card,
>> a standard (if old) Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card.
>> Basically, it tried to turn the card to a mode it did not support.
>
> I sort-of recall that thread. I have a relatively old Orinoco card in one
> machine that works just fine with NM, except that there's no WPA support.
> I did nothing special to configure it, just used the standard tools
> (system-config-network and NM).
Your posting led me to try NetworkManager again,
but my experience was no better than before:
starting NM has the immediate effect of stopping my WiFi connection,
which until then was working perfectly ...
I see in /var/log/messages:
======================================
Dec 2 22:11:27 martha NetworkManager: <WARNING>
get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning. Get a better one.
Dec 2 22:11:27 martha NetworkManager: <WARNING>
nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device eth0 returned an error.
======================================
Yes, well - either my card is not working properly,
or NetworkManager has a long was to go ...
Running "sudo service network restart" does not restore the link.
I have to re-boot the machine.
After that everything - except NM - is working again,
and scanning seems to work without any problem:
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[tim@martha ~]$ sudo iwlist eth0 scan
eth0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 8A:13:22:EE:C9:17
ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm
Encryption key:on
======================================
The card is a Lucent Technologies Gold PCMCIA card (11b),
with, according to /var/log/dmesg,
"Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.04".
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Timothy Murphy
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