Re: So very close, but so frustrating...

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:44 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 00:19 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 14:39 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:18 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: snip At this time Network Manager does not support Bluetooth

Re: Weird wireless phantom device

2009-10-03 Thread Rick Jones
--On Friday, October 02, 2009 18:25:59 -0700 Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 22:54 +0100, Rick Jones wrote: I think your call on VBox was the right one. So now having installed 2.2 again, there's no problems with the WiFi device. Bizarre bug, I'd never have made

Re: OLPC mesh support backported to NM-0.7

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/18 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi Dan, I'm sending you 6 patches which backport the NM mesh support to the v0.7 branch. They are all direct backports from the patches you committed to master, with only the minimal changes needed to get things working on 0.7. I've tested it with my

Re: [PATCH] Use libnl and nl80211 to get bitrate information

2009-10-03 Thread Valmantas Palikša
I've revised the patch to use system's nl80211.h with ifdefs. If nl80211 is too old the code will not be compiled and wext will be used On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:48 +0300, Valmantas Palikša wrote: This patch allows us to see 11n bitrates in nm-applet's connection properties.

Wireless problems on Acer Aspire One using Ubuntu Karmic

2009-10-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I've reported a bug on Ubuntu's launchpad but as time is pressing toward the release, I thought I'd bring it up here. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/433720 When I connect to my wireless access point here (since upgrading to Karmic), the network manager shows

Re: So very close, but so frustrating...

2009-10-03 Thread Steve
Dan Williams wrote: Which is why the people doing Blueman might as well have helped out getting the native NM support up and running in the first place; the answer at the time was help get modem-manager working so we can do this properly, but the Blueman people took the short, hack-for-today

2 usability ideas

2009-10-03 Thread Jago Pearce
Some suggestions: - let's add some info to http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ from http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/NetworkManager/index.html ...so that when the user clicks around (I never thought to right click it for a while) and clicks the About button, they will get some userful

RE: So very close, but so frustrating...

2009-10-03 Thread Andrew
snip then the following wvdial configuration to establish a PPP connection... snip So far, so good... but, when NetworkManager is not aware of a network connection (because the mobile phone connection has been patched-through from the command line) it refuses to allow me to turn on my VPN.

Re: So very close, but so frustrating...

2009-10-03 Thread Andrew
mobile device, the viable connections would change over time - and, ideally, the transition from one Wi-Fi router to the next would be seamless - and wouldn't even cause tcp connections to drop... assuming, I don't see how a transition like than can be seamless when I, for instance, have an

pre-down hooks

2009-10-03 Thread Christian Becke
Hi all, first of all, I'm new to this list, so greetings to everyone. I am missing pre-down hook functionality, too, as discussed previously on bugzilla [1] and this list [2], to safely shut down network services (unmount nfs shares, etc.) before nm brings down the connection. I am willing to

Re: So very close, but so frustrating...

2009-10-03 Thread Steve
Andrew wrote: mobile device, the viable connections would change over time - and, ideally, the transition from one Wi-Fi router to the next would be seamless - and wouldn't even cause tcp connections to drop... assuming, I don't see how a transition like than can be seamless when I, for

Re: Orinoco_cs WiFi under kernel-2.6.30

2009-10-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dan Williams wrote: My classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card has not been working under Fedora/KDE (with WEP) for some time. Does anyone have this card working under Fedora? It works perfectly under Windows XP. I was looking at this again today. My laptop with a classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card,