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". You might look here: http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ -- ======================================================================= Trying to establish voice contact ... please ____yell into keyboard. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
