Re: FC4 and NetworkManager?

From: David Cary Hart (Fedora_at_TQMcube.com)
Date: 06/21/05

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:10:06 -0400

    On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:50 -0400, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
    > I've updated to the latest NetworkManager (0.4-31.cvs20050616). Looking
    > more at what's going on, it seems to be a problem setting the ESSID.
    > Indeed, I get an error from iwconfig trying to set the ESSID when the
    > network device is already up. However, when the device is down and I do
    > an ifup, the ifup-wireless script is able to set the ESSID without a
    > problem. I suspect being able to set the ESSID is a question of the
    > state of the device, and in this case, NetworkManager is not putting the
    > device into the appropriate state before setting it.
    >
    I couldn't get the rawhide version to work. However the distro version
    works just fine (once I changed from MadWifi to NdisWrapper). 

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