On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:13 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > "Manual Configuration" only gives me the usual "Enable Roaming" option > > for both wireless and wired networks, which doesn't seem to make a > > difference? > > The roaming mode is meant to be checked. If Network Manager doesn't pick > the change up straight away, don't go unchecking it. Just log off and > log on again. Already tried this, including a complete reboot. > If it still doesn't work, go edit /etc/network/interfaces (I hope your > distro has its config there), and delete every single line _except_ for > the ones containing "auto lo" and "iface lo inet loopback". Log out and > log in to see if it worked. That's EXACTLY what I did after being advised the same thing on another mailing list and now everything works. I didn't even have to restart NM or anything - it just noticed the change in the file. The strange thing is that I can't tell who the hell added the lines which I removed. I'm sure I didn't. Could it be an older version of NM (this system upgraded from Gutsy, and worked for two-three weeks under Hardy). Another question: All these troubles began when I tried to convince NM to talk to an Access Point for which I had the pass key only as a hex string and I just didn't accept it. Is there some special trick to make it accept hex strings (as opposed to "text" passwords which are then hashed with the ESSID or something)? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
