I too am having a problem with Network Manager, and like Anne, I should file a bug and provide feedback if requested. In my case Network Manager seems to have a terribly difficult time connecting to my wireless network before I login. I always have to force a restart of the network service in order to get the magic "Connection Established" gui popup message and the connectivity bars icon showing at the top right of my screen. I think it may have something to do with a problem in ifup-eth and dhclient. [root@deafeng3 ~]# service network restart Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down interface wlan0: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable? [FAILED] Bringing up interface wlan0: Determining IP information for wlan0.../etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: line 291: 4291 Terminated /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE} failed. [FAILED] (At this point, if I see the line about ifup-eth, the "Connection established" GUI message will appear and I have wireless connectivity regardless of the failure messages mentioned above.) hardware: Dell Latitude E6400, with this wireless device: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1121 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at f1ffe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: iwlagn Kernel modules: iwlagn Maybe I ought to be using a different kernel driver... Bob Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm having problems with NM again. > I often have to re-boot once or twice before it connects. > > But that is not the subject of this rant. > To try to make sense of what is happening > I have been looking through NM entries in /var/log/messages > and I find these less than helpful. > > Was ever so much written to so little purpose? > > I see for example: > > Feb 23 14:49:41 mary NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): > (eth1) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012 > Feb 23 14:49:41 mary avahi-daemon[2272]: > Withdrawing address record for 192.168.2.19 on eth1. > Feb 23 14:49:41 mary avahi-daemon[2272]: > Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address > 192.168.2.19. > Feb 23 14:49:41 mary avahi-daemon[2272]: > Interface eth1.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. > Feb 23 14:49:47 mary NetworkManager: > <info> (eth1): now unmanaged > > What does this mean? > What is error -34? > How can one find out? > > Or: > > Feb 24 20:47:58 mary NetworkManager: <info> ( > eth1): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready > Feb 24 20:50:29 mary kernel: eth1: > Error -19 disabling MAC port > Feb 24 20:50:30 mary NetworkManager: <info> > (eth1): now unmanaged > > What is error -19? > > Surely Linux error messages should be intelligible > by the common user? > Or are they intended solely for gurus? > > And what are all these states NM keeps going into > and coming out of? > > Feb 24 20:50:38 mary NetworkManager: <info> > (eth1): preparing device. > Feb 24 20:50:38 mary NetworkManager: <info> > (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 2). > Feb 24 20:50:38 mary NetworkManager: <info> > (eth1): device state change: 2 -> 3 > > What is "reason: 2"? > Where are the states documented? > > NM = nightmare ... > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines