Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

2009-06-14 Thread John Mahoney
Yeah, I don't even want to know why you need to do this, but I have done more obscure stuff. Network Manager does not assign an IP address to the interface until it becomes active, even if you think you have an address assigned statically. You could write a script to assign the ip at boot with

Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

2009-06-14 Thread Ravindra Wankar
For one, I run apache with virtual host entries for the static IP. Secondly, it was just convenient. We develop web based apps and me and my colleagues need to access apache on each other's machines. Previously I could simply copy-paste a url to someone else in an email or a chat window. Now

Re: Duplicate MB entries in tray drop-down

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Jones
--On Sunday, June 14, 2009 13:53:41 +1000 Lorn Potter lorn.pot...@nokia.com wrote: ext Rick Jones wrote: The ZTE has 3 serial ports withiin the USB interface - one is NMEA (don't know what it's for), That's probably the GPS device. :) NMEA is a standard that GPS devices use to communicate.

Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

2009-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:03 +0530, Ravindra Wankar wrote: For one, I run apache with virtual host entries for the static IP. Secondly, it was just convenient. We develop web based apps and me and my colleagues need to access apache on each other's machines. Previously I could simply

idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread lizard
hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click checkbox) on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it to enable: echo enable /proc/acpi/ibm/wan to disable: echo disable /proc/acpi/ibm/wan to get status: cat

associating - disconnected

2009-06-14 Thread Bill Moseley
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 a Thinkpad with an Atheros AR5418 using the ath9k module. Now I'm having connection issues as shown in the logs below. I'm not sure if this is a Network Manager issue or a problem with the driver. Or if it's the supplicant. Before upgrading it often

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Bastien, hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click checkbox) on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it to enable: echo enable /proc/acpi/ibm/wan to disable: echo disable

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:28 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi Bastien, hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click checkbox) on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it to enable: echo enable

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Bastien, hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click checkbox) on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it to enable: echo enable /proc/acpi/ibm/wan to disable: echo disable

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:06 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi Bastien, hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click checkbox) on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it to

Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

2009-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:06 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: snip it is pretty simple actually. Check include/linux/rfkill.h and it is just poll, read and write. Only one ioctl for rfkill-input replacement in the future, but that is

Re: associating - disconnected

2009-06-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:37:49AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 a Thinkpad with an Atheros AR5418 using the ath9k module. Perhaps related -- another problem is I seem to have periodic disconnects now, where before upgrading the wireless was rock solid.