On Saturday 30 January 2010 02:59:30 Joe Emenaker wrote: > I've got a laptop with which I use two wireless adapters. With one of > them, I'd like NetworkManager to manage and automatically connect me to > wireless networks when they're available. The other, I want > NetworkManager to leave alone, letting me hack on it with iwconfig and > whatnot. > > I've googled, but I can't figure out how to get NetworkManager to leave > the second interface alone. The pages I've read say that all you need to > do is mention the interface in /etc/network/interfaces, but I've done > that, and NetworkManager still takes over management of it. Maybe the > directives I'm using (like "auto wlan1") in the interfaces file are ones > that NetworkManager ignores. > > In fact, the NM Wiki says that, if I put > > > [ifupdown] > > managed=false > Hmm, that should work and don't use any of the interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces.
> in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf, then NM will leave alone > anything mentioned in /etc/network/interfaces... but I've *got* that in > the conf file, and NM is still grabbing and managing/associating both > wlan0 and wlan1. > > Any ideas? > Maybe, some other configuration manages your devices (probably keyfile) or you may be using user connection (stored in GConf). Check your connections via nm-connection-editor. You can also looked at /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ for connections managed by keyfile plugin. To debug further, more info is needed: your /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf /var/log/messages _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
