Re: detecting wireless vs wired?

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dan Kirkwood wrote:

> How does NetworkManager detect whether a connection is wired vs
> wireless?  I updated my FC5 system last night, and now NetworkManager
> shows my wireless card as wired -- if I click on the NetworkManager
> icon,  I see my normal wired network connection (disabled) and my
> wireless as "Wired Network (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller)".
>
> It connects to my home network,  but no longer shows available
> wireless networks..  (it did yesterday..)  I'm running on a Dell
> Inspiron 5150, FC5 (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 kernel), NetworkManager 0.6.2.
> I've looked for docs, but was not able to find anything relevant.
> Suggestions welcome.   Thanks!

You might have been bitten by an issue wherein network devices can 
randomly swap names.  Try installing initscripts from updates-testing and 
rebooting, and see if that fixes the problem.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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