-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 20:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Dan Williams wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 11:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>> Is there a way of establishing (and keeping) >>>> a WiFi connection with NetworkManager >>>> before logging in? >>>> I've read postings saying it is possible, >>>> and others saying it is not. >>>> >>>> If it is possible, >>>> what are the steps one must take to implement this? >>>> (I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE.) >>> This is provided by the nm-system-settings service. You'll want to grab >>> the NM from F-10 updates-testing: >>> >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-3686 >>> >>> and after a reboot, you should be able to use the connection editor to >>> mark your wifi connections as "Available to all users", which means they >>> will be available before login. >> Thanks very much, I'll try that. >> >> Though I am reasonably sure - >> having followed your suggestion to use nm-tools - >> that the occasional problem with my Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card >> is something to do with the orinoco_cs driver rather than NM. >> Still, it will help to find as soon as possible >> whether or not a WiFi connection is going to be set up. > > You might get better luck by using the 'hostap' driver for your card, > most of the orinoco cards can be driven by hostap too. > > However, I've used an airport card (which is essentially orinoco) pretty > successfully with recent NM versions. What sort of issues are you > having with it, and what kernel version are you running?
Is that right? I've been using hermesap on a machine, but now can't upgrade to Linux 2.6 because that driver has essentially dead-ended. This is one of the old old WaveLAN cards (gold) that is actually branded Lucent. If this is true, that would be welcome news. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoIkeEACgkQmb+gadEcsb6/BACcCTbkIRPJKszz8Hf4hj7M8rdv aegAn14PqqnTUkcmOD0n6h0cGajlzWRq =Vu8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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