Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Tomislav Vujec
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:54:39 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: In the case of VPN, why do other programs _care_? What good does it do to advertise VPN connections to other applications at all? Most applications care about getting to the internet, which a VPN does for you. In the case of a VPN,

Re: integration of nonphysical interfaces in NM

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:24 +0100, Tomislav Vujec wrote: I think some applications might care, e.g. email client. My usage pattern looks like this: 1) Connect to the Internet 2) If I am in the company LAN, go to step 4 3) connect to the VPN 4) Sync my email Now NM removes the requirement on

Re: hal net.80203.link bug

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Moss
David Zeuthen released hal-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 hal-gnome-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 hal-devel-0.4.7.cvs20050126-1 last night which fixed for me the net.80203.link bug that I reported to yesterday bugzilla and to this list since it affected the operation of NM. Wow, that fix was fast! 8-) -- Bill Moss

Re: Do you need any further info on Intersil PRISM2 (orinoco_cs)?

2005-01-27 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:53 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Great to hear you're interested... One thing you _could_ do is to grab the upstream Orinoco drivers (orinoco.sf.net) and try to build it, then use it with NetworkManager and report what seems to be broken. I'm very happy to do that. By

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:28 +0100, Stefan Zechmeister wrote: NetworkManager: Activation (ath0) started... NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. NetworkManager: Activation

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan Williams wrote: What you need to do to debug this is the following... In a separate window, run the command watch -n 1 iwconfig ath0 and let that run while NM is trying to associate with the AP. Look at the MAC address that the card reports, and if it changes to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF too often

Re: Problems connecting using ahteros based wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Ionescu
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:46:49 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:28 +0100, Stefan Zechmeister wrote: NetworkManager: Activation (ath0) started... NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting for an access point. NetworkManager: Activation (ath0/wireless): waiting