John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:00:44PM +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. > > Did you mean to say eth2 here? Or still on eth1? > >> 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. > I really don't understand the question. Why don't you just login on > elizabeth, click on the NM applet icon, and select wrt? I'm on elizabeth now. 1. I am not offered wrt when I click on the NM applet. If I choose "Connect to Other Wireless Network" and enter "Network Name: wrt", "Wireless Security: WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal", and then give the 10 hexadecimal digit key, the "windmill" rotates for some time, and then ... I'll continue the story later, as I shall have to break the connection (established with "service network restart").
