On 5/11/06, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And I repeat, here, running kde, all it does is tear down the network and hang. You can stop it, kill it, do anything you want, but the only way to restore network function through ANY port, ethernet or wireless, is a full, powerdown reset. A normal reboot will not do it. Tested many times.
That seems odd, it might be an issue between NDISWrapper and NM but I doubt it. If you remove Network Manager does the problem go away? Is this a Broadcom chipset card?
Thats as far as I've ever gotten with it. No docs, no manpages or real help has been offered, usually the reply is that 'it works for me'. Here its well and trueky busted so why should I take a chance of its trashing my hd or whatever else it might want to do next?
If that is the way you feel then continue using whatever tools you prefer to manager your wireless networks and wait until NM is more stable. Network Manager is not required you can use whatever the tools kde provides. However I am willing to help you try KNetworkManager if you want to experiment. Before you read the below let me make this clear: I have never used an RPM based Distro like Fedora or SUSE so what I tell you could be completely wrong. I think you are running into a Distro issue and not a Network Manager issue, I did a quick google search and I don't see any Fedora RPM's for KNetworkManager (I found some for SUSE). I suspect the reason for this is that KNetworkManager was not ready for FC5's release and not any deliberate snub on the part of the Fedora team. However since you are not running Gnome nm-applet should not even be starting so you should be able to just install KNetworkManager and be good to go. Stefan posted a link to KNetworkManager this list earlier so you can use svn to checkout the latest snapshot. Assuming you have svn installed you can grab it with: svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/trunk/kdereview/knetworkmanager Assuming you have all the required libraries you then do the standard ./configure make make install
all options. I'm not convinced this interface does yet. And darned little of this is ever going to get tested as long as its hidden in an svn repo someplace I don't have the address of.
This is not an issue of the Network Manager Dev's this is an issue with your distro maintainers. Maybe someone here who runs Fedora can point you towards a testing repository that has it? If you look at Ubuntu you will find a large number of Kubuntu users happily using Network Manager under KDE with no large issues so I feel confident saying that KDE and NetworkManager can work great together. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list