Does NetworkManager Work with WPA in Fedora 8?

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Sun Jan 20 18:41:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:46 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 17/01/2008, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:24 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> > > (I did open the network properties and check the new option allowing
> > > NM to manage the connection for the ethernet interface.)
> > >
> 
> >
> > Where does one "open the network properties"? I've been looking for
> > config files but I haven't found anything that I could understand. There
> > is nothing under /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. There were xml files
> > in .gconf but I couldn't recognize much.
> >
> 
> System|Administration|Network a.k.a. /usr/bin/system-config-network
> Devices tab, select the appropriate device, click edit.  The devices
> properties typically affect /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.  I see that
> the NM check-box corresponds to a new variable in ifcfg-xxxx:
> NM_CONTROLLED.
> 
> -- 
> imalone
> 

I must not have noticed when the nm button was added (pays to look
carefully!). Thanks. I'll see if this fixes the problem of nm not
connecting with the static IP address (as did under Fedora 6).

Rick B.




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