Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 11:27, jim lawrence wrote: I did a fresh instal of FC5 and was connect with my wireless in 2 minutes after loading the firmware for my wireless device. What exactly did you do in that 2 minutes? Are you running KDE, or Gnome, or something else? What is your

What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers are documented anywhere? Is it hoped that it will work with all wireless devices for which there is a Linux driver (including ndiswrapper)? Or will it only work for cards, etc, with certain properties - eg ability to go into Monitor mode -

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:53:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers are documented anywhere? Is it hoped that it will work with all wireless devices for which there is a Linux driver (including ndiswrapper)? I haven't seen much of the stuff behind

configuration for DHCP client to use

2006-03-29 Thread Wendell MacKenzie
Where do you configure which dhcp client to use for NetworkManager? dist is SUSE 10.0... /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp?? If so, why doesn't the /var/log/dhclient-script reflect the change when I set the client to yes? I'm failing to get a valid DHCP address. Thx. Wendell

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:51, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers are documented anywhere? Is it hoped that it will work with all wireless devices for which there is a Linux driver (including ndiswrapper)? I haven't seen much of the stuff

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Darren Albers
This is answered here: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware The Orinco card does not seem to support the latest wireless extensions that are needed for NM to talk to the card to do WPA but it does do unencrypted and WEP Robert Love posted a patch that enables this but it is not part of

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Darren Albers
On 3/29/06, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:51, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers are documented anywhere? Is it hoped that it will work with all wireless devices for which there is a Linux driver

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi Timothy, On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Also is it intended that NM should work with KDE? The NetworkManager daemon itself does not depend on a specific desktop environment. Up to my knowledge there are currently two graphical front-ends available: nm-applet

Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 07:53 +0200, Trond Husø wrote: Hi list, Fedora Core 5 has just been released, and I might concider upgrading from FC4. But before I do, I need to know if some of my favorite programs works. One of these are Network Manager. So: Does it work under FC5? We ship it and

problem starting nm-applet

2006-03-29 Thread Wendell MacKenzie
Just compiled NetworkManager-0.6.2 on SUSE 10.0 ...went fine. Note that I'm using dbus-0.35.2 not 0.60. Q1: Is this mandatory? Q2: After installing the package, and I startup the NetworkManager and Dispatcher daemons...come up fine. As a normal user, try launching the nm-applet, and

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread DJA
Timothy Murphy wrote: Also is it intended that NM should work with KDE? I installed FC-5 with KDE, started NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher, and as far as I could see nothing at all happened. I don't know if it is intended or not, but NM works fine in KDE (I am using an up to date

[patch] OpenVPN helper server crash

2006-03-29 Thread Crispin Flowerday
Hi, I have been using the ubuntu 0.6.1 packages (really nice btw!), and have compiled up the openvpn service, however it the helper program just crashed for me when using it. The attached patch fixes the crash - it appears as though I don't have a ptp address so it was crashing when trying to

Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread jim lawrence
On 3/29/06, Peter Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 07:53 +0200, Trond Husø wrote: Hi list, Fedora Core 5 has just been released, and I might concider upgrading from FC4. But before I do, I need to know if some of my favorite programs works. One of these are Network

Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread Eli Criffield
2 minute wireless installed ipw2200 FW from source forge rmmod ipw2200 modprobe ipw2200 Just curious, what kinda access point is that? WPA-PSK or WPA enterprise? oh and from the instructions on the link: --- mkdir tmp mv ~/Desktop/*-2.4.tgz ~/tmp tar -zxvf ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz cp *

Question on NetworkManager

2006-03-29 Thread Hello ;-)
Hello all, I been trying to understand how NetworkManager work. Here are my status on my laptop. Dell XPS M140 (Laptop)Intel Pentium M Processor 750 (1.86GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 1GB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms100GB 5400rpm Hard Drive Integrated Intel

Re: Question on NetworkManager

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Bertram
Hello ;-) wrote: Hello all, I been trying to understand how NetworkManager work. Here are my status on my laptop. Running FC4 Kernel - 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 NetworkManager NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.4 NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.4 I did iwconfig and got this. eth1 radio off

Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread jim lawrence
On 3/29/06, Eli Criffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 minute wireless installed ipw2200 FW from source forge rmmod ipw2200 modprobe ipw2200 Just curious, what kinda access point is that? WPA-PSK or WPA enterprise? oh and from the instructions on the link: --- mkdir tmp mv

change the gnome keyring manager password

2006-03-29 Thread jim lawrence
as the title states... How can I change the gnome keyring manager password ?? -- Registered Linux User: #376813 www.fedorajim.homelinux.com ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Re: change the gnome keyring manager password

2006-03-29 Thread Eli Criffield
And how do you set it to have no password ? On 3/29/06, jim lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as the title states... How can I change the gnome keyring manager password ?? -- Registered Linux User: #376813 www.fedorajim.homelinux.com ___

current cvs errors on compile

2006-03-29 Thread Eli Criffield
I was able to compile older CVS versions, mainly the version Taged D2006.03.03.15.00.00 with Robert's patch for working with madwifi (and other cards). But with ubuntu dapper updated today (03/29/06) I get this error on compile. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include

cooperative scanning patch

2006-03-29 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, Here's a reworked patch that makes use of the netlink/wireless event stuff from about a month ago. It's got a few features: * Notices driver-provided scan completion events and pulls from them * Uses wpa_supplicant for scanning when a wireless connection is active * Works around older

Re: current cvs errors on compile

2006-03-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:24 -0600, Eli Criffield wrote: I was able to compile older CVS versions, mainly the version Taged D2006.03.03.15.00.00 with Robert's patch for working with madwifi (and other cards). But with ubuntu dapper updated today (03/29/06) I get this error on compile.

Re: What exactly are the aims of NM?

2006-03-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers are documented anywhere? Various places, including the NM website under Developers/Design Goals, and in various emails to this mailing list. For example, from March 12, 2006: As we

no WEP networks

2006-03-29 Thread Jono Juggler
Hello, I just installed FC5 with NetworkManager 0.6 It shows and allows me to connect to my unsecured network. But it does not even list the 5 other secured networks around me that my other machines can see and connect to. Maybe it does not show encrypted networks? Any ideas? -Jono