Re: Second message, about not being able to activate 'wlan1'

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 17:03 -0400, John Mahoney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:54 PM, derek starr <dereklinux gmail com>
> wrote:
>         To Rui Tiago Cação Matos,
>         
>         I have been busy with other matters, so I have not had a
>         chance to respond to your answer regarding my problem of not
>         being able to activate 'wlan1' with the GNOME NetworkManager,
>         using the 'Fedora 11' Linux distribution.
>         
>         You said of the files below:
>         'less /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices':
>         > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-07-27 08:42 ./
>         > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 2009-04-14 07:25 ../
>         > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  153 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-eth0
>         > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  198 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-wlan1
>         > -rw-------. 1 root root    5 2009-07-27 08:47 keys-wlan1
>         
>         "Try to delete (or move away) all those 3 files. Then reboot
>         your
>         system and click the network icon on the gnome-panel (top
>         right screen
>         corner by default)."
> 
> 
> 
> These are Distro configs that NM tries to make sense of.  I do not
> believe they can be deleted through the GUI.  Check this recent post
> for info: 

They should be able to be deleted, as long as you can authenticate as
'root' via PolicyKit.  The ifcfg-rh backend supports deletion of system
connections via the GUI.  You'll find these in the connection editor
(/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor) with names like "System eth0" and such.

Dan

> http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list gnome org/msg13444.html 
> 
> 
>         
>         
>         I just do not want to delete files being 'root'.  I would
>         rather use the NetworkManager applet, or as you said -> the
>         network icon on my GNOME panel.  I am just not clear what the
>         network icon looks like.  The top right screen corner only
>         shows the date and time on my GNOME panel bar.
>         
>         I have an icon on my panel bar that shows two computer
>         terminal screens on top of each other.  Is that the network
>         icon?  When I click on that icon, it shows the following lines
>         in a small window:
>              Wired Network ( highlited in a gray color )
>              Auto eth0  ( highlited in a black color, with black dot
>         on the left )
>              Wireless Networks ( highlited in a gray color )
>              wireless is disabled ( highlited in a gray color )
>              VPN connections ( highlited in a black color, with a
>         right arrow on the right )
>         
>         As I said previously, when I try to activiate 'wlan1' in
>         NetWorkManager, I always get an error message box, saying
>         'wlan1' cannot be activated.  The dialog message box never
>         says why 'wlan1' cannot be activated.
>           
>         Can you, or anybody else, help me?  I am just not very good
>         about figuring out how the GNOME NetworkManager works.
>         
>         Derek Starr
>         
>         
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