Dan Williams 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.
>> > 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. > You might get better luck by using the 'hostap' driver for your card, > most of the orinoco cards can be driven by hostap too. Well, WiFi is working sufficiently well at the moment that I don't like to disturb it. I did try hostap in the distant past, but didn't find it as good as orinoco_cs with my cards. > 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? I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE, and always keep it up to date; at present my kernel is 2.6.27.21-170.2.56 . The only issue is that about 1 time in 5 WiFi does not come up when I re-boot. I haven't found anything that works then except re-booting again. When I do that WiFi almost always works - perhaps 9 times out of 10. I find that when I suspend to RAM with WiFi working it is nearly always still working when the machine awakes. > > Dan -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list