Re: NM 0.5.0 problem

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Myk Melez wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > nm-applet starts on login, but never prompts for my keyring password.  It 
> > starts showing "no connection".  When I enter the ESSID in the "connect to 
> > other wireless" dialog, it eventually prompts me for the key, then fails to 
> > connect and reprompts me or reverts to "no connection"
> >
> > Am I missing something that should be upgraded (or downgraded)?
> Per Christopher Aillon's recent message in another thread, you probably have 
> to also upgrade the wireless-tools package:
>
> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireless-tools
>
> I also had to restart the NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher 
> services (or perhaps only one of those, but I restarted both and then it 
> worked).

OK I tried that and even rebooted, but I don't see any difference in 
behavior.  (Also note that the old NM doesn't work with the new 
wireless-tools.  Connecting to a WAP causes NM to crash.)

> -myk

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