On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 02:16, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:41:32AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: >> Wifi "disappearing" after switching back and forth from sugar to gnome. > > I've not tried to track down the original problem report that you are > referring to, but Sugar and GNOME manage connection to an access point > without reference to each other, so switching between the desktop > environments will certainly cause one of the following: > > 1. loss of association and then reassociation within about 35 seconds, > (because NetworkManager is told to disconnect as one desktop wraps up, > and then told to connect as the other desktop starts up), > > 2. loss of association and no reassociation (the other desktop hasn't > been told to trust the access point).
Just a heads up that this is in its way to be fixed for NM 0.9 (and we'll need to adapt to API changes again): http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/RemovingUserSettings Regards, Tomeu >> This happened to me too and I thought was an issue with the >> olpc-update I did at the time. I then clean installed and since then >> works fine but something must be there. > > My guess is that you weren't aware of the separate storage for trusted > or known access points. Once you've selected an access point in both > desktops, it will appear to work as you expect. > > This is a Sugar enhancement request. > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1884 > (use system settings instead of user settings for NetworkManager) > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > olpc mailing list > o...@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
