Confessions of a secret NM user

[max bianco]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Mark C. Allman <mcallman at allmanpc.com>
wrote:

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>
> ...... Original Message .......
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:14:58 -0700 "Rick Stevens" <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> >Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> Mea culpa.
> >>
> >> Having attacked NM (NetworkManager) unmercifully in the past,
> >> I now find myself completely at his (her?) mercy,
> >> as he/she is the only way of connecting one of my current laptop
> >> (with WiFi) to the real world.
> >>
> >> For some reason, system-config-network has been getting steadily worse
> >> over the last few months, and now does not work at all.
> >> (At its best it worked about 65% of the time.)
> >>
> >> Is anyone successfully using the network service +
> system-config-network
> >> with Fedora-8 (updated)?
> >>
> >> To be more precise, has anyone found themselves NOT connected with
> WiFi,
> >> and found the problem solved by running system-config-network?
> >
> >Yes.  Easily 95% of my systems are hard-wired and use system-config-
> >network (well, make that "service network start").  They're all using
> >fixed IPs, though.
> >
> >I've only used NM/NMD on very rare occasions.  Even my laptop on wifi
> >with WPA nodes and DHCP uses the regular stuff.  I did have to sort out
> >wpa_supplicant and dhclient things, but that wasn't hard to do.
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> What I've found for the past month or so is that for my laptop (Dell XPS
> 1710, Intel 3945 wireless) when I resume from hibernation I must restart
> wpa_supplicant before I can bring up a wireless connection:
>        service wpa_supplicant restart
>        ifup eth1
>
>  I don't have it up but it's F8 and the kernel I'm running is something
> like 2.6.23.137.  Hibernate doesnlt quite work in the 2.6.24.?? kernels.
>
> NetworkManager hasn't worked for managing the wireless in quite a while.
>  I
> haven't had time to rip into it to figure out why (wish I did!).
>
> -- Mark C. Allman, PMP
> -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
> -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263
> -- (From my Treo 700p)
>
> I am using NM on a newer dell vostro with intel wireless 3945 and it has
worked flawlessly for the few weeks its been running. I haven't used or
tried to use anything but NM.

Max
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