Network Manager

[Dan Williams]

Quick note, make sure you install NetworkManager-gnome as well, since
that's got the GNOME UI bits.  NetworkManager itself is non-DE specific,
and the gnome UI bits are included in that separate RPM.

Dan

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 15:35 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 14:04 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> > Hello:
> > 
> > What exactly is Network Manager supposed to do ? I  started NM as a 
> > service from system-config-services,
> > it is running. However, the wireless applet  on gnome-panel shows no 
> > networks and all options are grayed out (on right click).
> > And it says that there are no network devices, which is wrong, since I 
> > am using an integrated WIFI card which is working.
> > Is there an alternate user interface to access the Network Manager ?
> 
> I would suggest upgrading to the latest NetworkManager in Rawhide,
> NetworkManager-0.2-4.  This is much improved, and the applet is a
> notification icon now rather than an actual panel applet.
> 
> To access the UI of NetworkManager, you have to run a user-side daemon
> called "NetworkManagerInfo".  This should be added to your session, or
> you can start it up from a terminal.  This daemon controls the life of
> the panel applet, and also feeds user preferences to NetworkManager.
> 
> So it should be like this:
> 1) NetworkManager service gets started
> 2) NetworkManagerInfo gets started at login-time (must be started after
> NetworkManager, otherwise it exits by design)
> 3) NMI will automatically add the applet to your panel
> 
> > Does NM have the ability to pick up a wireless network in a location 
> > (that has many wireless networks) based on what the user
> > chose the last time around ? I know that Windows does this even for 
> > non-broadcast essid networks, correctly choosing my non-broadcast ssid home
> > network over my neighbours' broadcast members after the first time I 
> > choose it over the others. This functionality would be very nice
> > for my linux laptop.
> 
> NetworkManager currently does not work with non-broadcasting APs.  This
> will get fixed soon.  In any case, NetworkManager will attempt to
> connect to any access point you have previously chosen from the panel
> applet's menu, and it will pick the last one you chose from that menu,
> even across reboots (that info is stored in GConf).
> 
> Dan
>