On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:00 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have two laptops, elizabeth and mary, > with identical PCMCIA WiFi cards, Orinoco Gold (firmware 6.04). > > I have two APs, with ESSIDs (say) wrt and agere. > > NM (NetworkManager) works fine on mary, > linking always to wrt on eth1. > > NM never works on elizabeth, > trying for some reason to link to agere on eth1. > > "service network" links elizabeth to agere on eth2. > > So WiFi works perfectly on both machines, > but NM works only on one. > > I have compared all the files I can think of, > and see no difference between the laptops. > > I do not know where NM keeps the information it uses > on networks. > I would like to tell it to try to link to wrt on elizabeth, > but as I say do not know where it keeps this preference. > > The documentation on NM, such as there is, > says that "NM just works", > but unfortunately does not give any hint of what to do > if NM "just doesn't work". Indeed- welcome to a world of pain! Try looking in /etc/sysconfig/networking and networking-scripts. It really does seem to have a mind of its own though. A lot of it is not just NM, its the network scripts in general. So are you only looking at linking to the wrt? Or you want to link to both?
