On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 00:42 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > - NetworkManager has to have the mode set to "Managed" > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw. This > conflicts with FC's insistence on making the mode "Auto" so that I can > change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500). NM always sets the mode to Managed/Infrastructure. You should not be able to change the channel on the card, since when you put the card into Infrastructure mode, it will _automatically_ switch to the channel of the ESSID you set on the card. There is no need to manually set the channel and rate unless: 1) your AP is broken 2) your card/firmware is broken 3) you're using Ad-Hoc mode, in which case you aren't using NM What do you need to explicitly set the channel for? > - unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my > laptop. No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug > this. Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click > on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes > immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say > "can't connect to this network" (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I'm > not root), my laptop freezes hard. Mouse doesn't respond, kernel > doesn't respond, etc., etc. Previously there were issues wtih the IPv6 stack and wireless drivers in the _kernel_ (#rh135432# in bugzilla), these may be fixed. They caused a hard-lock of machine where a panic would print to the console, but of course you couldn't see it because you were in X. Dan