On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Have a look in /etc/network/interfaces > > > > I was aware that NetworkManager looks at this file and from the > googl'ing > > around I realized that it won't deal with interfaces mentioned there, > but > > the entires that I found there were added by it so I didn't think of > > removing them. Once I removed all entries (except for the loopback > > interface) NetowrkManager resurrected from the dead and started working > > again! > > NetworkManager doesn't add entries to /etc/network/interfaces and never > did > AFAIK . Thanks for the update. I got the impression that something changed in the way it works across the Gutsy->Hardy versions. > > > > Maybe the old entries were created by Gutsy's (7.10) and somehow broke > > Hardy's (8.04) together with my tweaking attempts. > > > If I were you I would try to figure out what made the changes, since if > they > come back it will again cause NM to ignore the interfaces. And you already > know what it's like trying to debug NM when it doesn't work... Could it be that: 1. Some of the command line tools I executed while trying to force NM to accept the non-working access point could have made the change? 2. nm-applet touched this file? Anyway: 1. It worked flowlessly with Gutsy since around December and with Hardy for the last two-three weeks. 2. I did all sorts of stuff to try to force it to work with that particular access point. It MUST have been something I did then. Now to another question which I intended to leave to another thread but anyway: The reason this AP didn't work for me was that the way nm-applet works is that it asks interactively for the pass key when it finds a new AP. The only form of the pass key that I had was in hex string. I copy/pasted it multiple times into the input field but it didn't accept it. Is there some special format that I should use in order to enter hex pass keys? Thanks, --Amos
