NetworkManager: a tale of two laptops

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:00:44PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have two laptops, elizabeth and mary,
> with identical PCMCIA WiFi cards, Orinoco Gold (firmware 6.04).
> 
> I have two APs, with ESSIDs (say) wrt and agere.
> 
> NM (NetworkManager) works fine on mary,
> linking always to wrt on eth1.
> 
> NM never works on elizabeth,
> trying for some reason to link to agere on eth1.
> 
> "service network" links elizabeth to agere on eth2.

Did you mean to say eth2 here?  Or still on eth1?
 
> So WiFi works perfectly on both machines,
> but NM works only on one.
> 
> I have compared all the files I can think of,
> and see no difference between the laptops.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The documentation on NM, such as there is,
> says that "NM just works",
> but unfortunately does not give any hint of what to do
> if NM "just doesn't work".

I really don't understand the question.  Why don't you just login on
elizabeth, click on the NM applet icon, and select wrt?

John
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