Re: wifi connection manager recommenadations

[Dale <quail.linux@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2008/8/17 Lubos Vrbka <lists@vrbka.net>:
> Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>
>>> what functionality i'd like to have?
>>>
>>> 1) start this application (undex X)
>>> 2) check for networks around
>>> 3) connect to a known one or select an unknown network
>>>
>>> for my home network, i need WPA. i am using enlightenment as a window
>>> manager. most of kde/gnome is installed as well (you cannot avoid it
>>> anyway), but i am not much familiar with the configuration details of
>>> these
>>> two 'packages'.
>>>
>> Network Manager does well for me -
>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/network-manager
>
> i tried that (one of the first things i tried), together with
> network-manager-{gnome|kde} applets.
>
> however, it didn't seem to find my network card (although wireless was
> enabled) - only wired network stuff was displayed in the applet. is there
> something i need to set up? maybe it was conflicting with the settings in
> interfaces file?
>
> patrick, could you please share configuration details with me?
>
> by the way, card is using ipw3945 driver and works more or less without
> problems itself...
>

I have the same wireless card as you and I use:
$ dpkg -l |grep network-manager
ii  network-manager                      0.6.6-2
network management framework daemon
ii  network-manager-gnome                0.6.6-2
network management framework (GNOME frontend

with no problems.

I recall there is / was a problem with network-manager not liking it
when you have the '/etc/network/interfaces' setup with the wireless
interface. here is a copy of my interfaces file if it any help.

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


> thanks!
>
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Regards
Dale
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