On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:23:01 +1000 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > A few months ago when I installed this machine, network-manager worked with entries in that file. I later removed them, so could be that the initial installation installed them. > > > > > > 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 be that something in the gnome network menus inserted them. Don't know those menu options. Network manager doesn't edit that file. > > 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 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
