Thanks a lot. The AT&T script doesn't integrate with NM. From looking at the page I found out some interesting things. I'd just love that I'd have the network name as an argument, but I know how to work around that. For ppp I don't need a graphical interface, I'd just really liked the idea of automating it. Thanks, João Miguel Neves On Sáb, 2007-01-06 at 09:47 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
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