Re: NetworkManager: a tale of two laptops

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:29 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> >> I have two laptops, elizabeth and mary,
> >> with identical PCMCIA WiFi cards, Orinoco Gold (firmware 6.04).
> >> 
> >> I have two APs, with ESSIDs (say) wrt and agere.
> >> 
> >> NM (NetworkManager) works fine on mary,
> >> linking always to wrt on eth1.
> >> 
> >> NM never works on elizabeth,
> >> trying for some reason to link to agere on eth1.
> >> 
> >> "service network" links elizabeth to agere on eth2.
> >> 
> >> So WiFi works perfectly on both machines,
> >> but NM works only on one.
> 
> > You might look here:
> > 
> > http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> I've looked through that, and don't see anything immediately helpful,
> except perhaps the mention of VPN.
> I said there was no difference between the laptops,
> but I see now that I am running OpenVPN on elizabeth -
> the laptop on which NM does not work -
> while I'm not running it on mary, where NM works.
> 
> I'll try disabling OpenVPN, and see if that helps.
> 
> One other small point.
> This FAQ says "If NetworkManager isn't connecting to the network you want,
> try to force it to connect to the network you wish to be connected, 
> and NetworkManager will remember that setting next time."
> Actually, that is not the case on my laptop, elizabeth.
> I have entered the information for wrt many times,
> but I am never offered that AP.

Well you found there was a difference between the two machines so that is a step
 in the right direction.
This remembering of the last AP connected to works on my laptop. It even 
remembers this for different network environments.

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