Re: Recent change in NM under Fedora?

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 08:05, dragoran wrote:
>
>   
> > > > I haven't seen any breakage in FC6 nm package. If restarting
> > > > NetworkManager (without pcmcia unplug&plug) does not do the trick then
> > > > either the driver is broken or you need a new card.
> > > >         
> > > Works perfectly under Windows XP.
> > >
> > > My question actually was: Has there been a recent Fedora update of NM?
> > >       
> > if you are not using rawhide than NO.
> >     
>
> I'm not using rawhide.
> I am running Fedora-6 with the standard yum repositories - extras and updates.
> I run "yum update" more or less nightly.
>
> As I said, the behaviour of NM on one of my laptops appears to have changed.
> This uses an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, (firmware version 8.72),
> which seems to work OK under Windows.
> Under Linux the connection is lost every 10 minutes or so.
> I can usually recover it by the command "sudo iwlist eth1 scan".
> This starts the wheel in the knetworkmanager icon turning
> (I'm running KDE) and then the connection usually resumes.
>
> This happens even when I am close to the Access Point.
>
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>
>   
knetworkmanager has been updated recently:

* Fri Jan 26 17:00:00 2007 Dennis Gilmore <dennis{%}ausil{*}us> - 
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