networkmanager without X (runlevel 3, 4) ?

["Anand Sengupta" <Anand Sengupta astro cf ac uk>]

Dear All,

After trying many different wifi managers, I finally discovered NetworkManager and find it to be absolutely fantastic. I am your average Joe user (not an expert that is) - and love that NetworkManager "simply works" for me without having to google up strange incantations to make my wireless work.

I have a couple of old PCs at home running FC5 for which I don't have a monitor connected to them. These PCs have wireless cards attached to them. Can someone explain how to make NetworkManager work at runlevel 3/4 from the console. I mean I have chkconfg-ed the daemons to run for run levels 3 and 4. But how do I latch on to a particular wireless network from the console mode ? For runlevel  5 - the way it works for me is that I click on the SSID of the wireless network and supply the WEP key when prompted. I am not sure if there is a similar tool in the console mode. 

I'd be grateful for your advice.

Cheers,
Anand.


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