Re: NM doesn't recognize my connection!

["Tim Hicks" <tim se hicks gmail com>]

Whoops, does it? Ignore me then.

If you can get it to see your wired connection, you'd know it was a
driver issue?


On 10/5/06, Jeff Schallenberg <schallenberg jeff gmail com> wrote:
> 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