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Once I got NM to work, I never went +</I>>>><i> back. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> For those of us still struggling to get wireless to work, can you give +</I>>><i> more details, please? Sorry if you have done so somewhere else and I +</I>>><i> missed it. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> As I understand it, NM needs to parse ifcfg files to an internal format +</I>before it can work correctly with wireless. I suspect there's a way to do +this with the NM CLI, but unless you speak NM well (I don't), it isn't +really obvious. + +It's only happening if you choose to not change the default networkmanager +configuration aka using the ifcfg plugin which means read only support for +ifcfg files. I'm personally using instead the keyfile plugin (the upstream +default). +><i> +</I>><i> It's easy in GNOME, as GNOME appears to detect that it needs to be done +</I>and does it silently. So if you have GNOME installed, just log in to it, +activate the interface from the dropdown at the top right, and log out +again. + +><i> Otherwise, from KDE, you define the interface with drakconnect (MCC), +</I>selecting to allow NM to control it. Then install +plasma-applet-networkmanager (which is not installed by default for KDE +because NM is not supposed to be the default for wireless yet). John +Balcaen has posted that you don't need to add it to the panel (you can +invoke it directly in some way I didn't follow), but before I read that I +just used the panel toolbox widget "Add Widgets" option, search on +network", double-clicked to place it +><i> on the panel, and invoked it from there. Just tell it to connect the +</I>wireless, and the parse should be done automatically. +><i> +</I>><i> IIRC, John also posted that knetworkmanager (invoked through KDE system +</I>settings) should do as well, but I'm not sure whether the +plasma-applet-networkmanager package was still required in that case. + +knetworkmanager is just the name of the source rpm and the original binary +which is long dead...So currently it's just a virtual package pulling the +plasma applet package. + +><i> Something has probably changed since I did this, since my recollection is +</I>that the plasma applet showed a choice of interface controllers with NM +selected by default, and that did the required parse. In current cauldron, +both the applet and knetworkmanager give me the same display, and neither +mentions NM, so maybe both the panel icon and the system settings option +are executing the same thing, and the plasma package was being used under +the covers. + +They're the same thing indeed. +><i> I'm a recent refugee to KDE from GNOME3, so there's a lot I don't find +</I>intuitive. +><i> +</I>><i> There are two questions for which I don't have answers. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Once you've caused the parse to be done, you should be good to go for +</I>wireless on subsequent reboots for that SSID. I'm not sure whether it +needs to be redone if you switch SSIDs, but the errors you get from NM if +the parse *hasn't* been done refer to errors in an "ifcfg-rh" which appears +to be independent of SSID. So maybe it's a one-time thing, or maybe it's a +one-time-per-SSID thing. +><i> +</I> +Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to keyfile +plugin. +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121124/7ce98fd7/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="020226.html">[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .! +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="020234.html">[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#20230">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#20230">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#20230">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#20230">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |