NM suboptimal with weak signal strength, easy fix

2007-06-01 Thread Saikat Guha
Hi, I encountered the following problem with NM recently. I have a _very_ weak signal in my hotel room. It'll hover at 15% for a while (and I can access the Internet then), then drop to 0% for 10--20 seconds (no Internet), then come back again for a few minutes and so on. With NM: - Within a few

Re: NM and WEP

2007-06-01 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 09:18 -0700, Patton Echols wrote: 1. I understand that for NM to use WPA, wpa_supplicant must be installed. Does the process of coding the keys into wpa_supplicant.conf need to be done too? It was in my case, and it works. But here is my thinking. If NM generates

Re: NM and WEP

2007-06-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found that no system seems to care whether you select open system or shared key. Perhaps I always leave it on open. I've never seen anyplace to set this on the other end, though, so I'm really in the dark about what it does. Then you haven't

Re: Hello

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
Benjamin Kreuter wrote: Hi All -- My name is Benjamin Kreuter, and I'm going to be contributing a bit to NetworkManager this summer, and possibly after that. I just thought I would announce myself to the list. Also, I am having trouble connecting to anoncvs.gnome.org -- is this server

Re: Hello

2007-06-01 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:06 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Benjamin Kreuter wrote: Hi All -- My name is Benjamin Kreuter, and I'm going to be contributing a bit to NetworkManager this summer, and possibly after that. I just thought I would announce myself to the list. Also, I am

Re: NM and WEP

2007-06-01 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:16 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found that no system seems to care whether you select open system or shared key. Perhaps I always leave it on open. I've never seen anyplace to set this on the other end, though, so I'm

Re: Hello

2007-06-01 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2007-06-01 at 13:06 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Benjamin Kreuter wrote: Also, I am having trouble connecting to anoncvs.gnome.org -- is this server still in use? If not, which repository should I be using (and why does the website still say to get files from there)? The source

Re: NM suboptimal with weak signal strength, easy fix

2007-06-01 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:35 -0700, Saikat Guha wrote: Hi, I encountered the following problem with NM recently. I have a _very_ weak signal in my hotel room. It'll hover at 15% for a while (and I can access the Internet then), then drop to 0% for 10--20 seconds (no Internet), then come back

Re: NM suboptimal with weak signal strength, easy fix

2007-06-01 Thread Saikat Guha
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 17:55 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: The driver is telling userspace that it has lost association with the access point. Future versions of NM will try harder to reconnect before timing out, but I'm not convinced that pinning is the best thing to do from an interaction

Re: Hello

2007-06-01 Thread David Griffith
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, [ISO-8859-1] J�rg Billeter wrote: The source code control now uses svn. The URL is svn://websvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/network/knetworkmanager. That's only the KDE GUI, the core is at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk The GNOME applet is at

Suggestion for Network Applet

2007-06-01 Thread TigerWolf -
First Posted Here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=460896 I have a suggestion to make to help make networking easier. I have found that on a wired network sometimes things dont work flawlessly. An example: the router/switch/network-cable may not be active or plugged in when the