Does NetworkManager Work with WPA in Fedora 8?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:57 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:36 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > 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
> > --
> > =======================================================================
> > Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo. -- Xaviera Hollander [The world
> > wants to be cheated, so cheat.]
> > =======================================================================
> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
> Here is the version of NetworkManager installed under Fedora 8:
> 
> > [chippy at localhost ~]$ rpm -qv NetworkManager
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8
> 
> I will find out on Tuesday when back at the office to see if nm handles
> the static ip. Like I said before, I could have sworn I was using nm
> under Fedora 6 and had no problems with the laptop automatically
> connecting using the static ip at the office and the wireless network at
> home.

It is still not working in NM-0.7, but is planned for the near future.
It never worked as you described in F6.

The latest system-config-network has a checkbox for NM control for each
interface, so it is easy to switch from a static address to
NM-controlled DHCP from there.  Using that and the profiles feature of
s-c-n might be a usable workaround.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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