Re: Re: ipw2200 recognized as wired connection

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 22:47 +0200, Ma Begaj wrote:
> Thanks, but ...
> 
> I do not load ipw2200 on system start to save battery power. Does my
> wireless card spend battery if ipw2200 is not connected?

Not much, especially if it's "down", which is the state it's usually in
when NM isn't using it.  You can also right-click on the menu and choose
"Disable Wireless", which should down the device as well.  A 'down'
device shouldn't be transmitting or doing anything requiring live RF.

> one more question.... sorry for repeating ...
> why do I don't see VPN menu when I left/right click on the icon in tray?
> 
> I have openvpn and vpnc installed ...

You need the vpn connectors for those packages.  They should be packaged
for your distro; on Fedora they are NetworkManager-vpnc and
NetworkManager-openvpn.  Otherwise they are in CVS under the
'vpn-daemons' directory.

Dan

> Thanks a lot one more time.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
> 2006/10/10, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 22:17 +0200, Ma Begaj wrote:
> > > Thanks Dan,
> > >
> > > I found the solution. ipw2200 is a module, and is being loaded after
> > > hal starts. After restarting hal and wpa_supplicant, alle access
> > > points are being detected.
> > >
> > > hope, this will help someone.
> > >
> > > now, I have to find out how to detect ipw2200 corectly without
> > > restarting hal. do you have any ideas?
> >
> > Ensure that (a) your kernel does hotplug correctly, slackware may not do
> > this right, and that (b) you load ipw2200 by default on startup.
> >
> > In most distributions, the kernel should load the ipw2200 module when it
> > sees the ipw2200 device, and send hotplug events to userspace, which are
> > handled by udev, which then notifies HAL.
> >
> > You'd probably get better answers about Slackware specifically from
> > slackware forums or mailing lists.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > >
> > > one more question.... why do I don't see VPN menu when I left/right
> > > click on the icon in tray?
> > >
> > > Thanks
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