On Saturday 23 December 2006 02:00, Darren Albers wrote: > > I should say that I am using KDE rather than Gnome. > > It seems that NetworkManager leans fairly heavily towards Gnome. > > Maybe it is not a good choice for KDE users? > > Oops, I forgot that you are running KDE, I am not sure where > knetworkmanager stores the profiles. I think there is a mailing list > devoted to this on kde.org or maybe a Knetworkmanager user here can > tell you. I vaguely remember something about the KDE wallet?
Thanks for persisting with this. I'll see if I can find where knetworkmanager stores things, I guess somewhere in ~/.kde/share/config/ . > > I'm afraid I do blame the Linux WiFi developers. > > For some reason the whole setup is in an appalling mess, > > with files all over the place, as I said. > > There is nothing wrong with the orinoco_cs driver; > > once I get connected it works perfectly. > > This is off topic for this list but I still have no idea what this: > "with files all over the place" means.... On my system they are in the > location I expect them to be. In the classic - non NM - setup there are files called ifcfg-eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ On some of my machines these are hard-linked files (surely no-one uses hard links nowadays?) while on others they appear to be independent, and in fact differ from one another. You mention files in ~/.gconf/ and I have found other relevant files in /var/run/ and other places. > > > Have you checked your systems logs to see if it reports why the > > > association is being stopped? > > > > Yes, repeatedly - > > when it doesn't work it says the delay was too long: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > (0002) Dec 23 00:44:43 martha NetworkManager: <information> Activation > > (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. > > Dec 23 00:44:51 martha NetworkManager: <information> eth0: link timed > > out. Dec 23 00:45:03 martha NetworkManager: <information> Activation > > (eth0/wireless): association took too long (>20s), faili > > ng activation. > > Dec 23 00:45:03 martha NetworkManager: <information> Activation (eth0) > > failure scheduled... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > However, the next time I re-boot NM works fine, > > completing the whole operation in less than a second. > > But there is nothing to indicate why the connection suddenly fails? > What you are seeing there is it failing to associate but what causes > it to fail initially? As far as I can see, the response is identical whether it succeeds or fails, up to the point where it either takes more than 20 seconds, and fails, or takes half a second, and succeeds. I have no idea why it sometimes goes one way, and sometimes the other. In fact I find the complete unpredictability of NetworkManager very off-putting - I never know what it is going to do. > > > > Has anyone else had problems getting NM to accept a WEP key? > > > > > > No, but is it a hex or ascii key? I just tried it on my system and I > > > was able to enter the passphrase and connect right away. > > > > What passphrase? > > I don't have any such phrase - just a network key (hex) > > which seems to work perfectly well in Windows. > > Actually, it works perfectly well in the usual WiFi setup in Linux, > > when entered as key=... in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 . > > Are you adding the 0x in front of the key? I have also heard of some > people having problems when their AP is set to shared instead of open. I didn't prefix the number with 0x, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't require that, as it checks that one has given 10 characters, before allowing one to try to connect. Also I said I was giving a hex key. What exactly is the different between "shared" and "open"? I just have a key set on my access point, and I give that key on each machine accessing the AP. Is that shared or open? Actually, I tried replying both "shared" and "open", but I didn't see any difference in the response. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
