Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
Obviously you have a problem but you chose the wrong solution. NM makes
wireless easy, network makes it hard. You have disabled the network
init.d script from running. If not that may be your problem.
I have never turned off network in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or other place.
You are saying I need to do this. Why has none of the mail in their
list, the NetworkManager Gnome list said to do this?
I agree it might be important since both are trying to do the same
thing. I put my Internet cable on my laptop with NetworkManager and it
did it automatic. Just now to yum the madwifi software for F7 I put the
cable in with just network running and I had to go to network and turn
on eth0.
So there could be something to all this. I will test on this computer
with no WiFi which makes it simple. Turn off network and turn on the new
stuff. I WILL be looking for a problem.
Karl
If WiFi is working, NM is great.
If WiFi is not working, NM just adds to the problem,
since you don't know if the difficult lies in NM,
or in the underlying connection.
You should say, "NM made wireless easy for me".
I have a card in one laptop - Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA card -
which works perfectly without NM,
but which does not work with NM.
NM actually gives the log message, "Get another card"!
Basically, NM expects the WiFi device to have a certain scanning facility
which is not actually necessary for WiFi connection,
and which this Orinoco card does not have, at least as NM expects.
When your right you are right. NM does not work with some cards.
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