Re: Experiences from a user

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 1/6/07, João Miguel Neves <joao neves intraneia com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I've been using Network Manager for a whole of 2 days ;). It's been
> great to manage wifi connections but I hit 3 issues for my usage:
>
> 1) I tried to connect to a wifi network that I couldn't (basically I
> chose the wrong network from the list). Now, every time I'm in the range
> of that network it tries to connect to it, disconnecting me from the
> internet (which is usually going through a umts/gprs card). Is there a
> way to forget a network?

I think this is what you are looking for to remove old networks:
http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ#head-bef25c7fff6853c702b745626a9b6fb40058f0e4

> 2) One of the networks I usually connect to uses nocat (it redirects all
> web requests to a form where you need to authenticate). Is there a way
> to setup a plugin for a specific network/access point? I'd like to have
> network manager connect me automatically to that network.

Matt Good posted a script to do this for an ATT hotspot that you can
probably modify to handle yours:
http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScripts

> 3) I use a umts/gprs card. It's not easy to detect (it's a pcmcia card
> that appears to the operating system as a serial port). What I'd like is
> to pass on a command to setup the card and have network manager use it
> as a last resource (aka "if no network connection is configured, try
> this"). Is this possible and I missed it?

Not yet, PPP might make it for .7 but there is a lot of work remaining
there.  In the meantime you can use GPRSEC to connect if you want a
GUI.  http://gprsec.linuxforum.hu/modules/index/

It is nowhere near as nicely integrated as NetworkManager but it works.