On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:41 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:42 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:26 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote: > > > > Just got a new HP dv2000 laptop with ipw3945. Setup winXP with wpa-psk > > > > and a netgear router and it worked. Couldn't wait to get FC6 on it. > > > > After a bit of a struggle with the ipw3935 driver and the reg-daemon I > > > > finally managed to get the wireless working but only the old way. I > > > > created a network-script ifcfg-eth1 with an open network and it worked. > > > > Now I would like to get NM working with wpa-psk. > > > > > > > > Should I remove the network script and start new? Do I have to do > > > > anything with wpa_supplicant? Is there a fedora specific howto > > > > somewhere? > > > > > > > > Thanks, --Louis > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > This is the log of NM: I believe for some reason ipw3945 is off. I have > > > ask the ipw3945 developers what is a frequency kill switch and how do I > > > turn it off. > > > > Most new laptops with builtin wireless have an RF kill switch these > > days. It allows you to hit a hardware button on the laptop and > > immediately cease transmission of anything from the card. For > > airplanes, for example. In any case, there isn't yet a good interface > > for wireless cards & drivers under Linux. It would be great if there > > was, because then we could detect whether or not the card's RF was off, > > and then do the right thing. But we're not going to hack up solutions > > to every different driver. Furthermore, not all drivers that support RF > > kill switches actually expose them to userspace at all. Worse yet, kill > > switches are often OEM-dependent and the interface with which they > > connect is different between say HP and Dell even when the same exact > > wireless hardware is used. > > > > It's a mess. > > > > Dan > > There is a switch in front of the laptop which I have on all the time. I > have found the rf_kill file in /sys and it was set to 0. What I don't > get is if I bring the wireless interface up the old way, with a > network-script, it works. It doesn't work for NM though. I hope there is > a model-specific code for HP somewhere. > > > -Louis
To confirm this, I created a network-script called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 then i started it, #ifup eth1, the led lit up, got the ip and the card was connected. I set the router to open for this test. Now I stopped eth1, #ifdown eth1. I started NetworkManager and tried to connect to the same open router and couldn't. The led of the wireless was off. Is Network-manager bringing up the wireless card the same way as the network-script? -Louis _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
