A couple of minor issues with NM

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

I've recently gone over to NM,
and it has solved a few problems for me,
but it has brought a few new ones with it:

1) I have two WiFi networks in this house,
but I always use one of them, with ESSID dd-wrt.
I read somewhere that NM would work out which network
was usually used;
but in my case this does not seem to work -
NM always chooses the other network,
although I never use it.

Is there some config file where one can specify which network
one wants to use?
(I know I could delete one network from NM,
but I prefer not to do that, as I very occasionally use it.)

2) I have two similar icons in my panel -
one from NM, and one from knetworkmanager.
(I am running KDE under Fedora-6.)
Is this normal?

3) Is there any documentation, eg tutorial or FAQ, on NM?
The Fedora implementation seems to have very little useful information.

4) NM loses connection every few hours,
and it seems very hard to re-connect.
Basically, I try "service NetworkManager restart",
which seems to work about half the time;
if that doesn't work, I re-boot.
Is there a simpler way of going about it?

Why incidentally does it lose connection?
The WiFi strength, as given by NM,
seems to vary wildly without any change in the position
of any of the computers involved,
varying between 50% and 0% over a few hours.

5) Not really an NM question,
but I have a Linksys WRT54GL running dd-wrt .
Does anyone know how to install a WEP key on it?
[I know WEP is not very secure;
but it is the only encryption my PCMCIA card understands.]



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