At 05:31 AM 3/14/2007, Darren Albers wrote:
Ok in that long email I was not able to determine exactly what issue
you are having so let me try and break it down.
You have two wireless cards:
1) Broadcom Mini-PCI
2) Some USB device
Network Manager sees the MiniPCI device but not the USB device?
Can you post your /etc/network/interfaces (commenting out any keys)
and post the type of chipset in the usb device?
Please make sure you include the list on the reply so others can see
the same information.
Thanks
Sorry about the length. I find writing
cathartic. By way of apology, I'll even use the
shift key this time and use html to make the most
important points stand out since even this isn't
as short as you might like it to. (And I'll use
my alternate ".sig", which might help explain the over-writing tendencies.)
However, my current .../interfaces is
irrelevant. I did a clean reinstall to clear
away the tangles I'd gotten myself into, and
haven't even reinstalled NetManager yet because
I'm trying to find out if it'll be worth my while to do so.
I am sure I had nothing but "lo" active during
several of the NetManager attempts, though, and
it still only seemed to be noticing eth1 (and presumably eth0) but not eth2.
And while I'm willing to fire up the notebook to
get the exact chip info if it turns out that that
might be relevant, all I really want to know is
Can NetManager in principle deal with two WiFi devices in the same machine?
If so, what's the trick to make it do so?
(For example, should the USB device only be
inserted after NetManager's had its first shot at things?)
Sure, if might be the case that the answer to the
first question is Yes, but only if it "knows
about" both; and the answer to the second is No
trick at all if it does know about both, it'll
just show them to you, so tell me exactly what you've got.
But if that's the case, I think I already know it
doesn't know about both -- and that the one it
thinks it knows about has changed subtly on its
way into the Lenovo 3000 N100 under Vista, since
it also didn't work before I plugged the USB
device in -- and I'll just wait for "Feisty".
(Well, unless there turns out to be some
source[s] I couldn't find for getting the
appropriate driver[s] so NetManager would know
about both. Or even just about the built-in.)
Please believe me, I'm not trying to be
difficult, I'm just trying to conserve what
little energy I have left after 3+ weeks of not
being able to get "Edgy" to do wireless on that
stupid machine I wish I hadn't been tempted to
buy because it seemed I was getting a lot of good iron for the money.
thanks, and
cheers, map
Michael A. Padlipsky
8011 Stewart Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-670-4288
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