On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:16:16PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Your message motivated me to try to compile knetworkmanager from svn. As > > > you predicted, it solved my problem. Thanks a lot ! I wonder why fedora > > > didn't push an update to fix that annoying bug. > > > > Which Fedora version? F7 or F8? > > That's a Fedora 7, with a knetworkmanager from svn20070815, while the bug > has been fixed (I think) on 20070827: > 2007-08-27 07:30 Helmut Schaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * src/knetworkmanager-nminfo.cpp: Avoid a race on the DBus which > sometimes prevents connection to wireless networks
You might want to file a bug against knetworkmanager in Fedora bugzilla to alert the maintainer to the fix so that he/she can package it up and push it out. > > What hardware do you have? You may need to ensure that the dcdbas > > kernel module is installed for Dell laptops, and that you have > > dellWirelessCtl. This message means that HAL has an rfkill item for > > your laptop, but the error says that something is going wrong when > > querying that killswitch. What version (and RPM release #) of HAL do > > you have? > > > That was it; I have a dell, but didn't know about dcdbas or libsmbiosi > (and the error message didn't help...) Thanks for the info ! Upstream libsmbios just figured out how to get the module to autoload, so hopefully that will get pushed into a new Fedora kernel at some point and obsolete any hacks people have. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
