NetworkManager: a tale of two laptops
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Apr 5 14:20:03 UTC 2008
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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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
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