Does NetworkManager Work with WPA in Fedora 8?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:41 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> 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.
> i
According to Dan Williams the head of the NM project NM does not work
with static ips . That is a change coming in NM-0.7
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