| Stephen Gran on 7 Jun 2007 01:15:23 -0000 |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:14:09PM -0400, jeff said: > Alex Launi wrote: > >One would think that with such an easy solution a lot of documentation > >would be unnecessary... > > How about *some* documentation then? > > > >It seems sometimes in the Linux world we tend to > >overengineer the solutions to our problems. > > and I have certainly been guilty of that. > > > >Congrats on getting it > >working, Ubuntu has done a good job with wireless. > > it gets better: wireless stopped working when I installed the XFCE > desktop. When I went back and logged in via Gnome, it was right there. > > I'm not exactly a linux veteran, but I had no idea that a desktop would > interfere with networking. My understanding of the way this roaming stuff works is that it uses network manager underneath, which is a dbus interface to the wireless nic. That in turn needs you to run the network manager applet from your desktop, and also to start the gnome key manager (or whatever it's called) so that it can retrieve your wpa key. I'm assuming when you switched desktops, you didn't start nm-applet or the keyring manager. Some, but not much, of this is documented in Network Manager's README and README.Debian in the doc/ tree. Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Anyone who stands out in the middle of | | steve@lobefin.net | a road looks like roadkill to me. -- | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Linus Torvalds | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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