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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