On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:54 +0000, Anand Sengupta wrote: > Dear All, > > After trying many different wifi managers, I finally discovered > NetworkManager and find it to be absolutely fantastic. I am your > average Joe user (not an expert that is) - and love that > NetworkManager "simply works" for me without having to google up > strange incantations to make my wireless work. > > I have a couple of old PCs at home running FC5 for which I don't have > a monitor connected to them. These PCs have wireless cards attached to > them. Can someone explain how to make NetworkManager work at runlevel > 3/4 from the console. I mean I have chkconfg-ed the daemons to run for > run levels 3 and 4. But how do I latch on to a particular wireless > network from the console mode ? For runlevel 5 - the way it works for > me is that I click on the SSID of the wireless network and supply the > WEP key when prompted. I am not sure if there is a similar tool in the > console mode.
There is currently GUI-less info daemon for NetworkManager, somebody would have to write one. The info-daemon just stores the networks you've connected to and responds to requests for them, and does the whole key request thing too. I've actually written a Python info-daemon that doesn't require any UI, for the OLPC project. It could be pulled out of the GUI bits in about 5 minutes and it stores all the info in .ini-type files in your home directory. It does _not_ yet handle the interactive key requests, though that's something I'm going to need to make work this weekend. http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=sugar;a=blob_plain;h=746ed7f7069f272589c288f102591bbd703a7c71;f=services/nm/nminfo.py Dan > I'd be grateful for your advice. > > Cheers, > Anand. > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.astro.cf.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff?-k+SenguptaAnand > Phone : +44 (0) 29 2087 5120 > Fax : +44 (0) 29 2087 4056 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
