Re: NetworkManager, Wireless and Fedora FC4

["Paul Dugas" <paul dugas cc>]

I fired up the rawhide updates last night.  The dhcdbd rpm is not doing
the 'chkconfig -add'.  Did that myself and started it up and it's working
for me now.

On Wed, June 22, 2005 10:54 am, Paul Ionescu said:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:39:04 -0400, Ray Hooker wrote:
>
>> Well I am both encouraged and stuck.  NetworkManager was working but
>> without the VPNC, so I upgraded to the versions as per:
>>  http://people.redhat.com/davidz/nm-vpnc2/
>>
>> When upgrading, it complained that I needed dhcdbd, so I got and
>> installed
>> dhcdbd-1.6-1.rpm.
>>
>> When I rebooted, logged in under gnome and ran "/usr/libexec/nm-applet"
>> it
>> looks great.  It detects the other networks in the neighborhood and
>> mine.
>> The problem is that it doesn't do dhcp client and setup routing.  I have
>> even tried doing a "pull down" from the applet and clicking on the
>> wireless networks to connect.  NOTE**** the wired ethernet does not work
>> either.  I am totally hosed other than manually setting up the routes
>> and
>> assigned a fixed ip address.. and resolv.conf.
>>
>> I suspect that it was the dhcdbd package that did it but any suggestions
>> are appreciated.  If necessary I can reinstall FC4 as I want a set of
>> steps that works cleanly without wondering as I often do with Linux (yes
>> well after 2 days it works but I wonder what I did...?)
>>
>> Ray
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> I had the same problem last week on one computer with FC4.
> You can find it on this list in 16.jun.2005.
> And on the other hand, I have it working on another computer.
> I don't know what went wrong or how to debug this, but you are not the
> only one who had this.
>
> Paul
>
>
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