I have had a terrible time with NetworkManager.....
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
Any suggestions on how to make this work under CentOS? I'd prefer to
have CentOS on my laptop, to keep it the same OS as our servers. I
don't want to learn two flavors of Linux...
Thanks,
-at
It normally just works on most wireless cards (centos in general, not
necessarily the live CD).
I will burn and boot the live CD on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and
see how NetworkManager works here and get back to you.
What kind of laptop is it?
I have pretty much given up on NetworkManager. I try it time to time
after a clean boot, but most of the time, it will just NOT connect.
I am an 'old had' at modifying /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf,
and I have simple scripts (for themost part) to run things. I have a
script called wlan:
ifconfig eth1 up
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -dd -K -D wext -i eth1 -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
That works well with the Intel card in my HP nc2400. The ifcfg-eth1 is
fairly simple:
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1b:77:43:09:78
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=nc2400.htt-consult.com
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
I do find that the BOOTPROTO=dhcp does not 'work' and I have to run
dhclient eth1 to get a lease.
If I get into a new area (did that a LOT these past couple weeks), I run
/usr/sbin/wpa_cli and do a scan and scan_results to get the SSID, edit
the wpa_supplicant.conf file, the a reconfigure within wpa_cli.
All works; all manual. But I clean everything out and NetworkManager
just does not seem to work for me.....
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