On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:08 +0100, Yann Simon wrote: > Hi, > > to connect to my DSL provider with wireless network, I have to: > - set up a static IP > - use PPPoe (with pon dsl-provider)
NM doesn't support PPPoE over wireless yet, but that was mostly an oversight. NM 0.7 won't ship with that support but it could most likely be added as an update thereafter. Dan > I do not use NetworkManager now. I have instead parametered everything > with command line tools (iwconfig, ifconfig and pppoeconf). > It works quite well. But the connection is sometimes down, and I have > to use the command line to repair it. > While I'm ok with that, the other peoples that use the computer do not > have the skills to do that. > > I though that I could use NetworkManager to configure the network and > display information through the nm-applet. > I tried with the live CD of Ubuntu 8.10 (which use NetworkManager v 0.7) > > I could: > - set up a static IP in wireless mode. > - set up a PPPoe connection in wired mode. > > But I could not set up a PPPoe connection in wireless mode. > > Is it an actual limitation of NetworkManager? Or am I missing something? > Is there a workaround for this? > > Thank you in advance for your answers. > > Yann > _______________________________________________ > 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
