Preventing NM from managing one of my interfaces?

2010-01-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got a laptop with which I use two wireless adapters. With one of them, I'd like NetworkManager to manage and automatically connect me to wireless networks when they're available. The other, I want NetworkManager to leave alone, letting me hack on it with iwconfig and whatnot. I've google

Re: Connection sharing and scp

2010-01-29 Thread Gonsolo
Am 01/27/2010 11:44 PM, schrieb Dan Williams: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:02 +0100, Gonsolo wrote: I have a working UMTS connection via a option.ko based stick and a working connection sharing via WIFI (iwlagn on the UMTS notebook and ath5k on the other notebook). I try to copy the linux source vi

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Dan You are another Network Manager angel! Now all is well with my network manager. Hopefully all I will need at home is a key for my router and all will be well there too. Cheers! > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:06 -0800, shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> When I click the Network Man

Re: Does network manager support WPS?

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:03 +0800, Dig wrote: > Hi someone, > > > I'm using uBuntu 10.04 on my PC, wpa_supplicant is ready for WPS, > but I don't know how to setup a WPS connection to My linksys wrt54g. At this time NM doesn't support WPS; we needed to add some functionality to wpa_supplicant'

Re: NetworkManager VPN tab locked

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 09:25 -0600, David Brown wrote: > Hello Users and Gurus, I have a newly installed Ubuntu Karmic Remix on > a 16g flashdrive working well. Except: the third tab on my broadband > wireless connection which is the VPN tab. The VPN tab has a lock icon > embedded in it and this is

Re: OpenVPN Problem

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 15:12 +0100, rh wrote: > I try to connect to an OpenVPN Server (Located on an IPCop) from my > Ubuntu Box. I have Configured Netmanager with all necessary parameters > Parameters following an IPCop Howto. But there happens nothing when i > try to connect. There are not any Lo

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:06 -0800, shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: > Hi folks > > When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: > > Wired Networks > device not managed By default, the debian/Ubuntu plugin for NetworkManager settings will ignore any devices that are listed in /etc/ne

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi Tony I rebooted and now wireless works! You are a networking angel! I will see if it works with my home network later today. Thanks s much. > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Thanks again Tony >> >> There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which >> I never notice

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Thanks again Tony There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working. Have you tried re-booting after turning it on? Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
After turning the wireless switch to on rfkill now reports that it is no longer hard blocked but is still soft blocked. I imagine that rfkill will allow me to unblock now but how can I make this change permanently in the appropriate config file? > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi Tony >> >> Tha

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Thanks again Tony There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working. Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware switch. Wireless worked out-of-the-box for 9.04! Why is there a wireless kill swi

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Tony Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and there oddly appears to be no fix yet. That's because it's not a single bug. First, there are many brands of Wi-Fi cards each requiring different drivers. This is then compounded by the f

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi Tony Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and there oddly appears to be no fix yet. "rfkill list" tells me that wireless LAN is hard blocked. Do you know how to unblock? Thanks again > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> When I click the Network Manager

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi folks When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: Wired Networks device not managed Wireless Networks wireless is disabled I did not disable wireless and I have no idea why the wired network would not be managed by NetworkManager. How do I en

net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi folks When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: Wired Networks device not managed Wireless Networks wireless is disabled I did not disable wireless and I have no idea why the wired network would not be managed by NetworkManager. How do I enable wireless and manage wired

Re: Connection sharing bug

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 00:06 +0100, Gonsolo wrote: > Am 01/27/2010 11:43 PM, schrieb Dan Williams: > > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:16 +0100, Gonsolo wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I encountered another Network Manager bug with connection sharing. > >> > >> After I shared my UMTS connection via WLAN and susp

Re: OpenVPN Problem

2010-01-29 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Reinhard, On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:12 AM, rh wrote: > try to connect. There are not any Logmessages in /var/log/message, there > is no error message, simply no reaction. I have installed Are there any messages in /var/log/syslog? Or do you mean this is the file that you checked already? / Matt

NetworkManager VPN tab locked

2010-01-29 Thread David Brown
Hello Users and Gurus, I have a newly installed Ubuntu Karmic Remix on a 16g flashdrive working well. Except: the third tab on my broadband wireless connection which is the VPN tab. The VPN tab has a lock icon embedded in it and this is the only tab with this condition. Otherwise, I have a very goo

OpenVPN Problem

2010-01-29 Thread rh
I try to connect to an OpenVPN Server (Located on an IPCop) from my Ubuntu Box. I have Configured Netmanager with all necessary parameters Parameters following an IPCop Howto. But there happens nothing when i try to connect. There are not any Logmessages in /var/log/message, there is no error mess

[Patch] Enable pkcs12 auth for NetworkManager-openvpn

2010-01-29 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Hi All, I was working on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534219, which enables pkcs12 key for nm-openvpn. I have attached a patch to the bz, which seems to work for me. Hope this patch is committed soon. Thanks. Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala. ___