Re: NM Shutting Down

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

> From: CACook quantum-sci com
> Every two hours or so, NM pops up a window asking me for the wifi
> router password.  Well if I Cancel, it disconnects me!  This is a
> nuisance.  How do I make it stay connected?

Probably needs more info from the logs and warrants a bug report or
comments to existing bug reports.

> Also I want to run macchanger.  This needs to run in if-pre-up.d, but
> it seems NM ignores this dir.  How do I make NM execute macchanger
> before it brings up the interface?

Is there any reason to use macchanger instead of NM's buit-in functionality?

More information:

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html

Anyway, pre-up and other hooks could be generally useful.

See also:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681301

Cheers,

Pavel