NetworkManager: a tale of two laptops
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 19:41:56 UTC 2008
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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