NetworkManager: a tale of two laptops
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 21:15:20 UTC 2008
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:06:18PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:00:44PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> I do not know where NM keeps the information it uses
> >> on networks.
> >> I would like to tell it to try to link to wrt on elizabeth,
> >> but as I say do not know where it keeps this preference.
>
> > I really don't understand the question. Why don't you just login on
> > elizabeth, click on the NM applet icon, and select wrt?
>
> I'm on elizabeth now.
>
> 1. I am not offered wrt when I click on the NM applet.
> If I choose "Connect to Other Wireless Network"
> and enter "Network Name: wrt",
> "Wireless Security: WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal",
> and then give the 10 hexadecimal digit key,
> the "windmill" rotates for some time,
> and then ...
> I'll continue the story later, as I shall have to break the connection
> (established with "service network restart").
Odd...is the network not broadcasting its SSID? Does it show-up in
'iwlist eth1 scan'?
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John W. Linville
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