Re: NM doesn't recognize my connection!

["Jeff Schallenberg" <schallenberg jeff gmail com>]

Tim Hicks' version of /etc/network/interfaces directly contradicts the advice in the wiki to comment out or delete everything but:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

So, I am one confused newbie :-(

As it is, I cannot connect wirelessly to any access point. I am writing this on my laptop with eth0 connected directly to the LAN port of my WRT54g router. My D-Link DWL-650+ seems not to be working anymore. So, my problems go WAY beyon getting NM working - I have to get wireless networking working the way it was before I started futzing around with Network Manager and the interfaces file. I think I'll start a new thread. Thanks to all for your attempts to help me!

- Jeff

On 10/4/06, Tim Hicks <tim se hicks gmail com> wrote:

Don't totally remove them; NM won't see any interfaces to use.

I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1, my /etc/network/interfaces contains:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

(eth1 being my wireless card) and NM sees both and works fine.


-
tim


On 10/5/06, Jeff Schallenberg <schallenberg jeff gmail com > wrote:
> OK, I can edit the /etc/network/interfaces file.
>
> It now contains only the lines:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> But this results in wlan0 and eth0 not being configured in Network Settings.
> So I can't connect to anything, either wired (eth0) or wireless (wlan0).
>
> And the NM icon still proclaims (rightly) "No Network Connection" and
> displays the little red exclamation point.
>
> (If I enable the interfaces in Network Settings, that creates new entries in
> the /etc/network/interfaces file for eth0 and wlan0).
>
> Please help me get Network Manager working with my D-Link DWL-650+ and
> Ubuntu 6.06!
>
> - Jeff
>
> On 10/2/06, Dan Williams < dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 23:06 -0400, Jeff Schallenberg wrote:
> > > Network Manager doesn't recognize my wireless connections.
> > >
> > > I am using a D-Link DWL-650+ (Texas Instruments ACX-100).
> >
> > What version of this driver, where did you get it from, and does it
> > actually work with Wireless Extensions?  Is it the old acx driver or the
> > new softmac acx driver?  Is it from John Linville's wireless-2.6 git
> > tree?
> >
> > Just to warn you that out-of-kernel drivers are usually dicey, and they
> > don't usually support Linux Wireless Extensions correctly.  But if the
> > device & driver work with wpa_supplicant, they should work with
> > NetworkManager.
> >
> > But first, lets see the answer to Darren's question.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > > There is an icon, OK, but it thinks I have no connection (little red
> > > exclamation point). Clicking on it does nothing. Double-clicking on it
> > > does nothing. Right-clicking on it offers to disable networking or to
> > > remove it from the panel.
> > >
> > > How do I get Network Manager to recognize my wireless connections? Is
> > > there a config file to edit, or something?
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Jeff
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> >
> >
>
>
>
>  --
> - Jeff
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- Jeff