On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:48 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2007 08:05, dragoran wrote: > > > >> I haven't seen any breakage in FC6 nm package. If restarting > > >> NetworkManager (without pcmcia unplug&plug) does not do the trick then > > >> either the driver is broken or you need a new card. > > > > > > Works perfectly under Windows XP. > > > > > > My question actually was: Has there been a recent Fedora update of NM? > > > > if you are not using rawhide than NO. > > I'm not using rawhide. > I am running Fedora-6 with the standard yum repositories - extras and updates. > I run "yum update" more or less nightly. > > As I said, the behaviour of NM on one of my laptops appears to have changed. > This uses an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, (firmware version 8.72), > which seems to work OK under Windows. > Under Linux the connection is lost every 10 minutes or so. > I can usually recover it by the command "sudo iwlist eth1 scan". > This starts the wheel in the knetworkmanager icon turning > (I'm running KDE) and then the connection usually resumes. > > This happens even when I am close to the Access Point. > > Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
As root, run 'iwevent'. Look for SIOCSIWAP events with 00:00:00:00:00:00. If you see them when you get disconnected, that's the driver and/or card disconnecting you. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
