How to configure wireless network card

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Did you "chkconfig NetworkManager on" (so it starts at boot) and
>> "chkconfig netowrk off" (so NM manages the network) and "service network
>> stop" and "service NetworkManager start"?
>
> I didn't chkconfig NM on, I just ran "service NetworkManager restart".
> Does it really have to start at boot-time?

It doesn't really, but IMO the most useful operational mode (for a laptop, 
at least) is to have it start at boot so it can connect on login.  (There 
was some discussion of supporting a mode that would connect on startup 
without logging in.  Not sure what the status of that feature is.)

> Also I didn't stop the network service,
> since it does not say one should do that in what little documentation
> accompanies NM in Fedora.
>
> I'll try both.

It may no longer be necessary, but it couldn't hurt to not run the regular 
network service when running NM.  You can probably start the network 
service, but you should set the interfaces to not start at boot.  Having 
them up will almost surely confuse NM.

> Thanks.
>
>

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