There are a couple of non-documented shortcomings in this package I would like you all inform about:
1. NetworkManager at its present state cannot deal with WLAN card using the prism54 chip. The corresponding bug 148210 has been marked FIXED without submitting or communicating a fix. Workaround: Either do not use NetworkManager (the traditional method supports prism54 with no problems) or install ndiswrapper from the factory tree (not included in the beta isos!) and use the corresponding MS driver with ndiswrapper. Then NetworkManager can deal with it. Sort of a Trojan horse to get MS drivers into Linux. 2. NetworkManager relies on DCHP in a very rigid manner: DHCP must provide not only the IP address but also the name server address. As many DHCP servers sit in DSL routers and similar devices they are often limited in functionality. E.g. they cannot provided a fixed MAC-IP address relation. Naturally these routers work as the name servers. So in case you want to put your DHCP server on to another node this server needs to address the issue of having a different name server (the one in the router). All this because there is currently no way to specify a fixed name server address NetworkManager will use (bug 159524). FMF --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
