On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:54 PM, derek starr <[email protected]> wrote:
> To Rui Tiago Cação Matos, > > I have been busy with other matters, so I have not had a chance to respond > to your answer regarding my problem of not being able to activate 'wlan1' > with the GNOME NetworkManager, using the 'Fedora 11' Linux distribution. > > You said of the files below: > 'less /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices': > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-07-27 08:42 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 2009-04-14 07:25 ../ > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 153 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-eth0 > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 198 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-wlan1 > > -rw-------. 1 root root 5 2009-07-27 08:47 keys-wlan1 > > "Try to delete (or move away) all those 3 files. Then reboot your > system and click the network icon on the gnome-panel (top right screen > corner by default)." These are Distro configs that NM tries to make sense of. I do not believe they can be deleted through the GUI. Check this recent post for info: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13444.html > > I just do not want to delete files being 'root'. I would rather use the > NetworkManager applet, or as you said -> the network icon on my GNOME > panel. I am just not clear what the network icon looks like. The top right > screen corner only shows the date and time on my GNOME panel bar. > > I have an icon on my panel bar that shows two computer terminal screens on > top of each other. Is that the network icon? When I click on that icon, it > shows the following lines in a small window: > Wired Network ( highlited in a gray color ) > Auto eth0 ( highlited in a black color, with black dot on the left ) > Wireless Networks ( highlited in a gray color ) > wireless is disabled ( highlited in a gray color ) > VPN connections ( highlited in a black color, with a right arrow on > the right ) > > As I said previously, when I try to activiate 'wlan1' in NetWorkManager, I > always get an error message box, saying 'wlan1' cannot be activated. The > dialog message box never says why 'wlan1' cannot be activated. > > Can you, or anybody else, help me? I am just not very good about figuring > out how the GNOME NetworkManager works. > > Derek Starr > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > >
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