On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 17:03 -0400, John Mahoney wrote: > > > 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:
They should be able to be deleted, as long as you can authenticate as 'root' via PolicyKit. The ifcfg-rh backend supports deletion of system connections via the GUI. You'll find these in the connection editor (/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor) with names like "System eth0" and such. Dan > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
