Re: Use interfaces not connected at boottime

["Thomas Hecker" <thomas hecker gmail com>]

I'm using the ndiswrapper driver.
What do I have to do to reload the gnome-networkmanager applet, which
has been disappeared since nm restart?
typing "nm-applet" on the console does nothing, never even giving back
the control to me...

On 12/06/06, Michael Biebl <biebl teco edu> wrote:
> Thomas Hecker wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an extern USB network adapter that's not connected at boottime
> > so I connect it on demand only.
> > That's why networkmanager doesn't know the interface. How can I change
> > this behaviour to use networkmanager to configure my interface?
>
> You probably encountered the same bug as in [1]. NM does not seem to
> properly detect hotplugged devices. I'm not sure if its a bug in NM or
> rather hal resp. the driver which does not generate the correct hotplug
> event. I already discussed that briefly with Dan but we didn't find the
> real culprit yet.
> As a workaround you can restart NM (depending on your disto
> /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart or
> /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart) after attaching your usb
> adapter.
>
> Michael
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355785
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