Re: FC4 and NetworkManager?

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/17/05

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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:08:32 -0400

    On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 14:27 -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
    > Aaron Gaudio wrote:
    >
    > > 1. No menu item... I wasn't able to locate a GNOME menu item to launch
    > > the NetworkManagerNotification tasklet. Did I overlook it or is it not
    > > present? I had to run /usr/libexec/NetworkManagerNotification manually
    > > from a terminal.
    >
    > Try running NetworkManagerInfo. It'll give you an icon in the
    > notification area.

    Does this do anything different than
    running /usr/libexec/NetworkManagerNotification itself?

    >
    > > 2. Once scanning, NetworkManager does not detect my network, which makes
    > > sense since my network does not broadcast ESSID. So, I click on the task
    > > icon and select "Create New Wireless Network...". I get a dialog asking
    > > for the ESSID and WEP key. These I enter in and save them. After a few
    > > seconds, NetworkManager starts trying to connect to the network
    > > ("tarnation"). However it never gets further than trying. Running
    > > iwconfig at this time doesn't show the ESSID being set.
    >
    > I think the "Create New Wireless Network..." dialog actually sets up an
    > adhoc network. What you probably want is "Other Wireless Networks..."
    > That's where I configure my non-beaconing/WEP network.
    >

    Yes, I tried "Other Wireless Networks..." too, with the same results.

    > My biggest complaints about NM are:
    >
    > 1. Every-so-often, the wireless card's power management is turned off.
    >
    > 2. I can't figure out how to have anything but WEP or no WEP. I'd like
    > to do WPA-PSK, but I think I'll need to do that by hand.

    >From scouring the fedora-test list, it seems that WPA simply hasn't been
    implemented yet. 

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