NetworkManager, Wireless and Fedora FC4

Laszlo Antal lantal at tmail.com
Fri Jun 24 15:06:15 UTC 2005


Hi,

I had the same problem. What I did is created a small shell script and 
put in one of the rc file.
All this script does bring up eth1 after everything loaded.
"#!/bin/bash
ifconfig eth1 up"
That's it it works for me.

Laszlo
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 7:26am, Preston Kutzner wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 06:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>  On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:38 -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>  > I'm having problems getting NetworkManager to work correctly on my
>>  > ThinkPad T30, with the built-in wireless (Prism 2.5 chipset).  By
>>  > default Fedora uses the orinoco drivers, which do work, and I can 
>> get my
>>  > wireless card working, but I have to activate it manually every time
>>  > through the 'Network' panel..  I've got the latest version (cvs 
>> packages
>>  > mentioned in the clemson walk-through) installed, but I can't get 
>> it to
>>  > find any networks around it.  Anybody know of any tricks to get this
>>  > working with my card?
>>  ----
>>  one of the problems with laptops and pcmcia cards is that the network
>>  services load before the pcmcia service and though it is counter-
>>  intuitive, ONBOOT = YES makes it not work and ONBOOT = NO makes it 
>> work
>>  automatically at startup. I would speculate that the reason is that 
>> when
>>  the pcmcia service starts, if it detects the network device as already
>>  working, it won't bother with initializing it.
>
> Unfortunately for me, this is a pci card, and not a pcmcia. :-/  I'm
> trying to get the built-in wireless working.  Well, it's working and
> all, just not with NetworkManager (nm-app).
> --
> Preston Kutzner | Network Administrator
Laszlo Antal




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