NetworkManager Issues

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 00:42 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > - NetworkManager has to have the mode set to "Managed"
> > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw.  This
> > conflicts with FC's insistence on making the mode "Auto" so that I can
> > change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500).
> 
> NM always sets the mode to Managed/Infrastructure.  You should not be
> able to change the channel on the card, since when you put the card into
> Infrastructure mode, it will _automatically_ switch to the channel of
> the ESSID you set on the card.  There is no need to manually set the
> channel and rate unless:
> 
> 1) your AP is broken
> 2) your card/firmware is broken
> 3) you're using Ad-Hoc mode, in which case you aren't using NM
> 
> What do you need to explicitly set the channel for?

hmmmmm.  Well, as it turns out, it's not the channel that I have to set
to get things to work nicely in fedora's Network Configuration GUI.
It's the rate.  If I don't change the rate from the default "11M" to
"Auto", then my card (a Symbol LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card)
can't associate/get an IP address.  As for the above...  

1) I'm using a Linksys WRT54GS AP
2) I wouldn't argue this.  =:)  It's a pretty obscure card that uses
orinoco_cs.
3) I don't think I'm doing this.  Like I said, using fedora's network
configurator works so long as I change the rate from "11M" to "auto" and
use either Managed or Auto mode.

> 
> > - unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my
> > laptop.  No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug
> > this.  Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click
> > on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes
> > immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say
> > "can't connect to this network" (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I'm
> > not root), my laptop freezes hard.  Mouse doesn't respond, kernel
> > doesn't respond, etc., etc.
> 
> Previously there were issues wtih the IPv6 stack and wireless drivers in
> the _kernel_ (#rh135432# in bugzilla), these may be fixed.  They caused
> a hard-lock of machine where a panic would print to the console, but of
> course you couldn't see it because you were in X.


hrmmmmmm.  That's interesting.  I have ipv6 turned off on both of my
network connections and yet lsmod still shows this...

ipv6                  232577  27

I'll add the below to /etc/modprobe.conf and reboot and retry this....

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Also, in other news, I created a bugzilla for the issues I listed in
this e-mail, not realizing you had replied already to them.  =:/  Sorry
about that.  

I guess if the above fixes my issue, then the only one I have left is NM
not remembering the WEP key.  Don't suppose that one is fixed already?
=:D

Thanks for your work on NM, Dan, and for the answers to my questions.
=:)

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