NetworkManager, wlan0 doesn't come up by default

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Mon Sep 10 20:39:01 UTC 2007


Matthew Saltzman escribió:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:09 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Martin Marques wrote:
>>> With network it works fine. I made a change to Netwokmanager to be able
>>> to connect to various wireless networks without having to change my
>>> network configuration.
>>>
>>> Network is not up, NetworkManager is. eth0 comes up with NetwokManager
>>> without any problem, but wlan0 interface is not up after booting. I have
>>> to manually up wlan0 before connecting via NetwokManager.
>>>
>> Dumb question - is wlan0 configured to come up on boot? (On boot box
>> checked, or "ONBOOT=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0?
> 
> Generally, if using NetworkManager, you do not want your interfaces
> upped on boot.  The current NM only goes to work when a user logs into
> an X session.  Then it connects to the wired interface (if available) or
> to the WAP in range that it had connected to most recently.  If no
> previous connection, it waits for the user to pick one.

Then why can't I get my wlan0 up when I enter X?




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