interaction of NM and pidgin

2008-11-25 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hello, since the upgrade to Intrepid and NM 0.7 I have problems with pidgin connection after suspend/resume AND disable/enable networking - sometimes pidgin is able to reconnect and sometimes it shows DNS resolver problems. The problem is always, that the hostnames I know pidgin is (or was in

Re: howto disable default multiple device activation?

2008-11-25 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, Tony Espy wrote: Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:50 +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote: Hello, with the switch to Intrepid I finally got the long awaited NM 0.7 features and although it incorporates several enhancements I would really like to set it back to the 0.6 behaviour

Re: Problems with network-manager 0.6.6 in Ubuntu(8.04)

2008-04-10 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:14 -0500, Rev. Justin Brown wrote: It's mostly driver related issues that the SCAN_CAP NM patch fix in concert with the kernel patch. Having only the NM side of that will still make

Re: NM 0.7 for Ubuntu Hardy?

2008-04-01 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:43:14AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:46 -0400, Brett Alton wrote: I've heard a lot of concern over NM 0.7 not being available in Ubuntu's next release (end of April, 2008), so I have a two part

Re: manual mode options

2008-01-27 Thread Nikolaus Filus
ships: http://bigw.org/~dan/nm-scan-capa.patch Dan Hi, both patch requests are now filled under https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/186296 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/186299 Thanks for the advice. Nikolaus Filus

Re: autoconnect to wired if link is up

2007-06-13 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Stefan Kost wrote: hi, I am on ubuntu feisty and use network manager as I roam around with my laptop. On my desk I have a wired connection (static ip), elsewhere wifi. Now my problem is that whenever I boot the machine it connects to wifi. I checked with ethtool that the link status

Re: different icons if internet is available

2007-05-19 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, yelo_3 wrote: I've implemented the most code, except the function that decides if internet is available or not. In fact I'm thinking of this problem. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439310 an isolated network access cannot of course reach the most internet locations we

Re: suspend, hibernation

2006-10-30 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Krzysztof Kaczmarski wrote: Could someone please, point me to a documentation describing how to get NM working after hibernation and suspend? I tried fighting with /etc/acpi/resume.d and /etc/acpi/suspend.d but without any success. I use Ubuntu 6.06 and nm-applet.

Re: NetworkManager doesn't detect network

2006-10-13 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hugo Palma wrote: Hi all, I have a PRO/Wireless 2200 wireless card with the ipw2200 driver installed. I checked that NetworkManager should support this card but still it doesn't show up in NetworkManager applet window. Any ideas ? very first google hit or

Re: init.d script

2006-09-02 Thread Nikolaus Filus
beerfan wrote: Previous list messages refer to a startup script in /etc/init.d/NetworkManager but the Ubuntu Dapper package does not seem to include this file. Am I missing anything without this file? The lack of documentation requires me to ask. Ubuntu has one in /etc/dbus-1/event.d/ I can

Problems on resume / driver reload / auto reconnect

2006-09-01 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hello, I migrated to ubuntu some days ago and am seeing some problems, I didn't have with gentoo before. Now I try to find the bugs and sort them out. Ubuntu 6.06.1 kernel 2.6.15-26-386 ipw2200 1.1.1 ieee80211 git-1.1.7 (as packaged by ubuntu) network-manager 0.6.2-ubuntu7 started with

Re: NM Doesn't List Ethernet Card

2006-07-12 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Carl J Richell wrote: Hello and thank you in advance. Network Manager is not listing the ethernet card in its drop down list. It only list the wireless card (Intel 3945). Ethernet Card: Realtek RTL-8169SC (rev 10) Distro: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) Both wireless and ethernet cards appear

Re: NetworkManager on a non-recognised distro : dhcp problem

2006-07-05 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, Timothée Lecomte wrote: Dear NetworkManager specialists, I am desperate to make NetworkManager work on my machine, as I move my laptop daily between three locations where I have different network setups (one is wired, and two are wireless). The problems come with my distribution :

Re: pptp vpn still broken

2006-04-11 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, Dan Williams wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:47 +0200, Nikolaus Filus wrote: Hi, although I should now learn for my final exams, I need some relax and looked again at the pptp plugin I use for connecting my university VPN. additionaly to setting my password in the pptp plugin (I really

Re: pptp vpn still broken

2006-04-02 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Nikolaus Filus wrote: Hi, although I should now learn for my final exams, I need some relax and looked again at the pptp plugin I use for connecting my university VPN. additionaly to setting my password in the pptp plugin (I really would wish a GUI solution), I need to apply the following

Re: Network Monitor Capabilities in NM

2006-03-26 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Thomas Voss wrote: Hi all, I was wondering the other day why NM wasn't monitoring the activity of the currently selected network interface like the GNOME network monitor panel applet, i.e. visualizing incoming and outgoing network traffic? It's name is NetworkManager, not NetworkMonitor and

Re: Network Monitor Capabilities in NM

2006-03-26 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Thomas Voss wrote: Nikolaus Filus wrote: It's name is NetworkManager, not NetworkMonitor and the guys here follow some (clever) usability guides that say, don't clutter the UI with too much information. Especially, when there are other tools for doing so. I'm using gkrellm as monitor

Re: Troubleshooting NM

2006-03-21 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 04:07, Paul Stodghill wrote: I just upgraded to FC5, and NM no longer works for my ndiswrapper-enabled wireless card. I looked, but I can't seem to find a troubleshooting guide for NM. Is there such a beast? Not as far as I know, but ... I had an idea (somehow stolen

Re: ANNOUNCE: NetworkManager 0.6 Release

2006-03-04 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Saturday 04 March 2006 08:11, Dan Williams wrote: Notable Improvements * WPA/WPA2 Personal and Enterprise support * Two new VPN services; openvpn and pptp hmm, is someone really using pptp? It's not very stable and at least for my university scenario (nothing unusal

Re: no carrier detection after resume from swsusp (8139too)

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:19, Robert Love wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:12 +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote: I didn't look enough on this issue before. After resume, I get invalid argument from /sys/class/net/eth1/carrier. Reloading the driver *OR* restarting networkmanager

Re: no carrier detection after resume from swsusp

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:22, Bill Moss wrote: Here is my /etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh. Currently, it is necessary to send NetworkManager a dbus signal before and after. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager

indication of auto-ip connections in nm-applet

2006-02-21 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hello, I'm sitting in the cafeteria of my university, where the signal strength of our wlan is only 30%. nm-applet tried to connect and showed me the bars indicating a working connection ... Wrong! :( In this situation I noticed, there should be some indication of a non-working connection

Re: Detecting wired network on resume with 8139

2006-02-09 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, I have exactly the same problem and wanted to collect some information for a bug report. Now here they are On Wednesday 08 February 2006 17:27, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:27 +, James Ettle wrote: Something I've noticed is that if I'm on a wireless network

Re: DHCP dbus name patch

2006-02-05 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:00, Christoph Brill wrote: Find attached a patch that replaces a hardcoded string by a define used at a different place. -   if (strncmp (interface, com.redhat.dhcp, 15)) +   if (strncmp (interface, DHCP_SERVICE_NAME, 15)) shouldn't it be

Re: Configuring a static ip

2006-02-01 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 09:03, Aurélien Naldi wrote: Hi, sorry for the bad reply, I am not subscribed to the list... I would like to know if the support for the old config files includes allowing several interfaces to be up at the same time (for connection sharing and so on). I have

report: running nm from cvs on gentoo

2006-01-10 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, I just finished compiling nm from cvs on gentoo and had to - manually add libnl-1.pc http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-November/msg00175.html - patch nm with with nm-if-header-compile-fix-1.patch - update gnome-keyring from 0.4.2 to 0.4.4, because of undefined

Re: WPA status 2006-01-08

2006-01-09 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, On Sunday 08 January 2006 22:48, Dan Williams wrote: *) Your driver probably doesn't support WPA quite enough; you'll need a driver that does WEXT-18 or higher. This means that it needs to set the enc_capa bits on return from the SIOCGIWRANGE call, which only hostap seems to do right

Re: [patch] make NM survice a HAL restart

2005-12-15 Thread Nikolaus Filus
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:51, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:04 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:45 +0100, Timo Hoenig wrote: Personally I'd go for the first approach. Me too. And this is great. Dan? Yeah, first one looks better to me as well.

WPA_supplicant status

2005-09-28 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hello, I'm reading the list now for a long time waiting for the glorious message, that network-manager finally supports wpa - but so far no news ... Several people asked for wpa, but didn't got any answer (hope, that doesn't happen to me :) wpa support ist the only thing stopping me (and