NetworkManager-0.7 can't make new wireless connection
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Mon Oct 1 19:18:40 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 11:01 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 20:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:32:38PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > Also noticed that (now that I have a connection defined) it doesn't
> > > connect automatically when NM/nm-applet starts (e.g., when I log in). I
> > > have to pull down the menu and select it. My F7 machine NM-0.6.5
> > > connects to the most recently used WAP in range when it starts.
> >
> > You can use gconf-editor to toggle the autoconnect flag for the connections,
> > once you've connected once. This seems to work.
> >
> > (With the caveat that the whole thing is acting really flaky for me. Once
> > I connect to one network -- or even *try* to connect -- the network card
> > then loses the ability to scan for any networks or connect to other ones
> > until I reboot.)
>
> A driver based on mac80211 perhaps? which one? At least ipw2200 has
> been pretty stable for me; I have also tried rt76_usb + mac80211 and
> that's been OK.
In my case, iwl3945. But I haven't been in a situation where I could
encounter Matthew Miller's issue, yet.
If I could connect to a hidden network at all, I could try this...
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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