f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

[John Summerfield]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:36:07AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> From what I've seen here, I don't think Fedora would do better, I didn't 
>> have wireless in runlevel 3; I don't think I tried wired-only networking 
>> while running networkmanager.
> 
> To get wireless in RL3, you need to write a script, something like
> this for my home network and my Lenovo r51 (ipw2200):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> # Log in to curleynet
> 
> # Time-stamp: <2007-07-20 22:04:11 root curleynet>
> 
> # clean out the driver, in case it is hung up, and reinitialise the
> # hardware.
> 
> rmmod ipw2200
> modprobe ipw2200
> killall dhclient
> 
> # Detect the wireless interface, ignoring output to stderr.
> 
> IF=$(iwconfig 2> /dev/null | grep ESSID | cut -d ' ' -f1)
> echo Interface is $IF
> 
> iwconfig $IF essid Curleynet nick dragon channel 6 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mode managed
> # dhclient $IF
> 
> ifconfig $IF 192.168.1.4
> 
> route del default
> route del default               # in case there are two.
> route add default gw 192.168.1.12
> route -n
> 
> cat > /etc/resolv.conf <<EORES
> search localdomain
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 192.168.1.4
> nameserver 192.168.1.3
> EORES
> 
> ifconfig $IF
> iwconfig $IF
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Obviously that isn't very flexible, but it works for me at home.
> 
> I originally wrote that because NM was a turkey and couldn't reliably
> associate with my home network. It is not much more reliable, but I
> keep this script around for those times when NM looses its marbles.

I had wireless (orinoco silver, 11b, pccard) working in FC3 (still works 
in FC5). I think system-configure-network set it up, maybe with some 
help from vim, and I only used wep. I've no idea how to do it with WPA.

it worked only for one AP (unless one had several all with the same key, 
when one could call it "any"), but I could use dhcp. I also conffigured 
it to run bind, using the DHCP-provided nameservers for forwarding requests.

_I_ can make it work, but it's hopeless for ordinary computer users.


If you want to do it (with wep) in a script, all you need is is the 
appropriate incantation(s) of iwconfig and then your preferred dhcp 
client. Unless you want more than one interface, but that's not much 
different from having two wired networks.


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Cheers
John

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