Mysteries of NM
I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible. If I left click on the NM icon in the panel a window comes up with WLAN Interface on the left, and Connections on the right. (Rather annoyingly, there is no X at the top right-hand corner to close the window, one has to click again on the icon.) A number of APs (4) are listed on the right, including the one I am using. On the left, the Traffic box shows a number of moving spikes, distributed unevenly but approximately one every 10 seconds. I take it these are beacons of some kind from the APs? If I click on the Manage Connections button at the bottom of the window and then choose Wireless, my present connection is listed, but it says Last Used: Never. which I find puzzling. If I highlight this entry, and click on Scan, I see rather a nice map showing the APs previously listed, presumably showing the stronger signals nearer to the centre. (What, if anything, does the location around the circle mean?) I find it odd that this graphic only appears after I have chosen a specific connection; I would have thought it would be more logical to offer it when the APs were listed earlier. Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mysteries of NM
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible. ... Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? It is not NM but rather knetworkmanager (a.k.a. networkmanagement) which is independent project. I do not think many people on this list are using or working on it. You better use kde-networkmana...@kde.org. ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mysteries of NM
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible. ... Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? It is not NM but rather knetworkmanager (a.k.a. networkmanagement) which is independent project. I do not think many people on this list are using or working on it. You better use kde-networkmana...@kde.org. OK, thanks. I suspected that might be it. The interface is quite nice, but bizarre. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mysteries of NM
Are you using KDE 4.5? The network-manager plasmoid was redesigned, and now its much more stable than before, it's worth a try. 2011/2/26 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net Andrey Borzenkov wrote: I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible. ... Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? It is not NM but rather knetworkmanager (a.k.a. networkmanagement) which is independent project. I do not think many people on this list are using or working on it. You better use kde-networkmana...@kde.org. OK, thanks. I suspected that might be it. The interface is quite nice, but bizarre. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mysteries of NM
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 15:09 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible. If I left click on the NM icon in the panel a window comes up with WLAN Interface on the left, and Connections on the right. (Rather annoyingly, there is no X at the top right-hand corner to close the window, one has to click again on the icon.) A number of APs (4) are listed on the right, including the one I am using. On the left, the Traffic box shows a number of moving spikes, distributed unevenly but approximately one every 10 seconds. I take it these are beacons of some kind from the APs? If I click on the Manage Connections button at the bottom of the window and then choose Wireless, my present connection is listed, but it says Last Used: Never. which I find puzzling. If I highlight this entry, and click on Scan, I see rather a nice map showing the APs previously listed, presumably showing the stronger signals nearer to the centre. (What, if anything, does the location around the circle mean?) I find it odd that this graphic only appears after I have chosen a specific connection; I would have thought it would be more logical to offer it when the APs were listed earlier. Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? I am mystified by your description of the interface. When I left click on the NM icon I get no Traffic Box, no Manage Connwections button, etc, etc and so forth. Is it that you are using knetworkmanager rather than Network Manager? -- === Many pages make a thick book. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
