HEAD 1.522

[Bill Moss <bmoss CLEMSON EDU>]

I changed the order for nm-applet in the Gnome Session Start Programs 
from 10 to its default value of 50 and now I do not see the 
no-connection icon when I boot to wired. I thought the lower order would 
start nm-applet earlier but apparently not. Guess I shot myself in the foot.

We have a crap DHCP server for wireless at Clemson. Several times a week 
the wireless DHCP server fails to respond. When NM times trying to get 
an ip address it throws up the passphrase dialog which is inappropriate 
because NM has already set a valid ESSID/Key configuration in an earlier 
activation stage. It would be better if NM put up a dialog that says 
something like 'failed to get an ip address, do you want to try again'. 
If you cancel out of this dialog, you should see the same thing you see 
when you cancel the passphrase dialog -- the no-connection icon.

The current implementation of VPN seems solid and the new animated VPN 
connection icon fills a gap in user feedback. I have NMD starting ntpd 
as well as the firestarter firewall configured for VPNC.

NM is sleeping and waking consistently with the 1398_FC4 kernel which is 
the most recent kernel that fully supports Thinkpad radeonfb poweroff 
during sleep.

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Bill Moss
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University